Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Thinking toward mingw64 and mingw-get

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 27/02/13 20:54, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>>> Then we stop using the alias feature, in our package specifications, and
>>> force users to be more verbosely specific when selecting packages.  I
>>> had reservations when I added aliases, (as an experiment), because they
>>> could be easily abused; Chuck persuaded me to keep them.
>>
>> Perhaps we should.  Maybe with the next release of mingw-get.
>
> This is nothing to do with the mingw-get release cycle; it is entirely a
> property of mingw-dist.  Individual package maintainers will need to
> remove *inappropriate* aliases from the XML specifications for their
> packages; (note that some aliases will remain appropriate [1]).

I understand this, I'm thinking of a coordinated effort w.r.t. a
mingw-get release so that it all happens roughly at the same time.

>
> [1] There are currently three aliases defined for mingw32-gcc:
>
>      gcc == mingw32-gcc
>      gcc-core == mingw32-gcc
>      mingw32-gcc-core == mingw32-gcc
>
> Of these, the first two yield the impression of default behaviour, which
> you find objectionable; the third remains appropriate.
>

Yes, I agree.  The alias though should contain a subsystem mingw32-gcc
or mingw64-gcc.  But mingw64-gcc should not be installed onto a 32bit
OS, how do we control that?

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