Re[2]: [Mingw-users] new release??

[Paul S. <pa...@is...>]

Hello Earnie,

Earnie Boyd <ear...@ya...> wrote:

EB> --- Bruce Dodson <bru...@bi...> wrote:
>> I'm wondering, what is the status of mingw?  I haven't seen any new stable
>> release in almost a year; the last release of any kind was a pre-release
>> snapshot from last January.  There were some nice enhancements in that
>> snapshot, but I don't want to use a development snapshot for production
>> work.  What ever happened to the release for which this was a pre-release?
>> Have there been any non-official, but stable, releases since then?
>>

EB> Be patient we're working on the next release.  No time estimate yet.  We're
EB> first looking over Mumit's previous work so that we have a base to begin
EB> working from.  Paul S. do you have any comments?

    Yes, we currently working on setting up infrastructure for
project with distributed maintanance.

    As for releases, I think it's shame that most stable mingw32 build
of entire history spends long time in "beta snapshot" status. My idea
is simply re-release it with latest mingw runtime available
(2000-03-xx vs 2000-02-xx). Since even that won't happen tomorrow, my
binutils build might also fit there. But even first of all that, we
should decide of packaging and installation conventions. I personally
interested in having it in modularized (gcc/runtime/binutils separate)
downloads (and uploads too ;-) ), still, most people will prefer
all-in-one distro. I even think we should select "official" IDE for
mingw and provide that off the site, too.

EB> Cheers,

EB> =====
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EB>    Earnie Boyd: <mailto:ear...@ya...>




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