From: Lothar M. <lot...@go...> - 2009-02-03 14:12:54
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2009/2/3 Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>: > >>> I use this: http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/ >>> >> >> I'm just curious - why are these releases not official mingw releases? >> In my opinion, releasing something, even if it is partly broken, is >> better than releasing nothing at all. People would report bugs, and >> things would progress. >> > > My first thought was to send you here > http://www.mingw.org/wiki/TheNextRelease but that doesn't cover the > loss of a maintainer. Since you are mentioning this link, I'm afraid I strongly disagree with what is written there. Lack of time often can also be lack of motivation, since lack of time is often caused by different priorities. If people show interest in new releases, let's say in a friendly way, then this is far from being offensive. > That said, John E.(tdragon) is a member of the > MinGW development team. His link and downloads are his own and not > official to MinGW. However, if Danny and Aaron do not object, I think > it would be beneficial to ask John to upload current versions of GCC to > the MinGW FRS. I will leave it up to the three mentioned people to > coordinate with each other. That sounds great! >> I don't know what the state of ada is - I only read this bug >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36207 and the final >> statement is >> >> "Ada is back in business now on mingw32, modulo some Makefile.in >> problems which >> I'm fixing now." >> >> However, this bug seems to be related to gcc 4.4, not 4.3. >> > > GCC bugs should really be reported to the bug tracker for GCC. The > MinGW bug tracker can help us with bugs specific to MinGW but > ultimately the bug and patch must be given to GCC for consideration. ? I'm not reporting any bug. I was just pointing to that link for information concerning the state of ada in mingw. Regards, Lothar |