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#47 Official release
There seem to be no "official" release for this project. I integrated MinGW-w64 in
Npackd (http://code.google.com/p/windows-package-manager/) by downloading an automated build
from 8th of April 2011 and uploading it to my Dropbox account.
- please add official release so that I don't have to choose between "automated" and "personal builds". How should I know which is better?
- please define a version number like 1.0 and increase it in case of a bugfix to something like 1.0.1
- please leave old (even known as buggy) versions as long as possible for download on sf.net (many years) from the same URL.
Please, don't do a package yourself unless you can commit long term support. We'd like to avoid fragmentation if possible.
For download help, see <https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/download filename structure>.
1.0 itself is a rolling release, so there aren't any fixed releases based on it.
Missing old versions are hidden due to SF's interface, or lack of space, but I can't really comment on it since I don't do automated builds. Having them on the same URL might also present a problem, especially with deep linking, we don't want users requesting bugfixes for bugs that has been long fixed.
if I understand it right, the current version is something like 1.0.2010.4.8 and is a bugfix for the stable 1.0. This means that I only have one wish: a more stable line of development so that releases older than 6 months are also available.
> if I understand it right, the current version is something like
> 1.0.2010.4.8 and is a bugfix for the stable 1.0. [...]
I, for one, don't know of any such stable version (or any such version
for that matter...)
I just mean that all available downloads are for 1.0 and are only bugfixes. One way to express this is to reverse the release date and append it to 1.0.
1.0.2010.4.8 means 1.0 release on 8th of April 2010
I obviously need increasing version numbers in a package manager.