From: Keith M. <kei...@to...> - 2007-03-22 15:54:53
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Giovanni Bajo wrote, quoting me: >> Please feel free to contribute such a Wiki page; your efforts will >> surely be appreciated. As a starting point, you could use the content >> of Danny's earlier message: > > Thanks for the reference. I prepared this page: > http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/GccStatus > > It's nothing fancy but at least it's a good start and collects all the > infos I gathered thanks to this thread. Looks good, as a starting point. Thanks. Danny may wish to comment on the page you've created, and dedicated to him. >> And here, Danny throws down the guantlet to *you*: >> | If mingw users want an "official" (=="bug-reports are a mingw project >> | responsibility") GCC-4.1.2 mingw binary package, please explain why you >> | can't wait and why someone besides yourself should spend time on it. > > I don't understand this. I am not asking anybody to spend time, No? Well, had you taken me up on my offer to host your binary, then I would require you to commit to dealing with bugs and support requests relating to it, and posted on our trackers. > I did my own binary myself. I just consider it pretty stable; Stable or not, it will still attract support requests; when those roll in, I'll assign them to *you*, and I'll expect you to deal with them. Even if you simply review them, and decide that they should be passed upstream to the GCC maintainers, isn't that a demand on your time? > in fact, stable enough to wonder why it couldn't be official released. It could be... >> I'll take that a step further, and throw down one of my own: I'd even >> be willing to host *your* GCC-4.1.2 release as a MinGW snapshot, along >> with all of its supporting sources, on condition that you are willing >> to address any support queries relating to it, which are addressed to >> this list. > > I was going to consider this, but then I saw Danny's mail where > he's saying that GCC 4.2 will be released as soon as the official FSF > release is out. Since that'll take only a few weeks, I'm more than > willing to wait. Fair enough. I could cynically say: "yet another, quick to criticise, but found wanting when asked to assist in providing a solution". (Oh dear, did I just say that)? :-) Regards, Keith. |