From: Danny S. <dan...@cl...> - 2007-03-21 10:19:27
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Bob Rossi > > Danny, just out of curiosity, why do you consider GCC-4.x not good > enough to release? I have limited time. The leap from the 3.x series to 4.x really exposed a lot of areas in win32-specific code that relied on assmptions about how and when optimisation was done. When gcc 4.0.0 was branched I decided that the best use of my time was to spend it in the code from SVN head, not the branch. Likewise when 4.1.0 was branched. When 4.2.0 was brancehd I belived it was just about time for mingw 4.x., but I still wanted to stay current with testing SVN head, since that is the real fixes/enhancements are discussed. So even though 4.1.2 may be "good enough" because of backports from head and 4.2, I have not seriously considered uploading amd maintaining a 4.1.x release, because I don't have the bandwidth to juggle 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.x and trunk (to become 4.3). Maybe someone with more time should be mingw's GCC release manager. The only reason I am the de facto RM now is because I got tired of waiting for someone else to upload GCC 3.x binaries, when Mumit left :) Danny |