On Sep 6 21:06, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 20:40 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > As the subject says, shouldn't we remove gcc3 from the distro finally? > > We have 3 mingw compilers and gcc4 for Cygwin. What reason is left > > to stick to gcc 3? > > Based on Dave's response, only GDC. Therefore, I would say that once > he's ready to ship a GDC-enabled gcc-4.5+, then gcc3 can and should go, > at which point gcc4 can become gcc and the -4 suffixes can be dropped.
Sounds right to me. It's a pity that we don't have another good replacement for Pascal(*) and Modula-2(**), but that doesn't mean we have t ostick to gcc3 endlessly. Corinna (*) Porting FreePascal, anybody? (**) ??? -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
