From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2008-09-09 14:51:38
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Quoting techtonik <tec...@gm...>: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Earnie Boyd > <ea...@us...> wrote: >> >> Thanks, tdragon's updates of HEAD removed the mingw.ini file. I'm now >> pulling the branch specific data. > > Just found another issue - Java package can not be installed with > 5.1.x installers. > Already fixed, but.. well, I can't see if these fixed installers are > really welcomed here. > >>> I am going to deprecate BUILD field in mingw.ini and add VERSION >>> instead. BUILD should be fixed to 12 to allow older installers to >>> upgrade. VERSION will contain minimum version of installer to process >>> the file. >> >> VERSION has no real meaning, does it; and I don't want to promote "no real >> meaning" further than it already is? > > VERSION contains a minimum installer version, e.g. 5.1.5 etc., The version of the installer has no significance to bug reports except for exceptions with the installer itself which are minimal. I do not want to promote the version of the installer more than is already done. Bug reports that say "I installed MinGW-5.1.4 and I'm having trouble with GCC" are just horrifying and tell us nothing. > required to install packages listed in a given mingw.ini > BUILD doesn't have any purpose anymore, because updated 5.1.x > installer is able to compare version strings directly - you don't need > to increase BUILD number and PRODUCT_NUMBER both every time a new > installer release is made. > That's nice to know. I still don't want VERSION to replace BUILD. A personal preference I know. >> Let's leave that alone, tdragon's new mingw-get can do whatever he needs. > > If this mingw-get is from new 6.0 of installer then I can't see how it > will solve this problem with redundant BUILD numbers in installer > unless you are going to remove mingw.ini and parse SourceForge file > release feeds directly. > > Concerning new 6.0 installer - are there any status > pages/roadmap/feature lists about it? > MinGW-6.0 is dead. Please review recent archives of the mingw-users list for a definition of mingw-get. Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/ |