Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-10 Thread Reini Urban
2011/9/8 Corinna Vinschen: 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? (**) ??? Some time ago I looked into fixing/creating

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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,

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
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. Pascal? Oh yes, I remember that. I used it in a one-semester introductory programming class, in 1983. Probably still have

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
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

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 22:15, Dave Korn wrote: On 02/09/2011 19:40, 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? Well, it's the only support we have for Pascal

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03/09/2011 09:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 2 22:15, Dave Korn wrote: On 02/09/2011 19:40, 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? Well,

gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin

Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?

2011-09-02 Thread Dave Korn
On 02/09/2011 19:40, 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? Well, it's the only support we have for Pascal and D. Someone might still be using them.