From: Giovanni B. <ra...@de...> - 2007-03-20 17:39:43
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On 3/20/2007 3:57 PM, Keith MARSHALL wrote: >> Is mingw considered to be a secondary citizen platform of the >> GCC project? > > I believe, at present, we're actually considered ternary class citizens. > I do recall coming across a reference, a few months ago, suggesting that > the steering committee were reviewing that status; I don't have time to > hunt for it again. The document is here: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.2/criteria.html You can see that mingw is not even a secondary platform, so basically its bugs are not even looked at when considering whether releasing a new version or not. Things will be little better for 4.3: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/criteria.html because mingw was accepted as a secondary platform. -- Giovanni Bajo |