On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:00:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:56:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> I agree with Chris here. IMO, gcc-mingw is a cross-compiler targeting the >> "mingw architecture". I have seen packages on Linux named "gcc-<arch>", >> so I think gcc-mingw is more appropriate (where "gcc" alone assumes >> "gcc-cygwin", or even "gcc-i686-pc-cygwin"). > >I agree partly. I don't think that the cross compiler for mingw should >get an shortened name as "gcc-mingw" but only a full targeted name as >"gcc-i686-pc-mingw32" as for any other cross compiler.
The files on disk do reflect that naming. I don't think there is any reason to inflict it on the package name though. cgf
