[Mingw-users] Is MinGW GCC 4.5.0 stable or not?

[Tao W. <dan...@gm...>]

Hi,

The page: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/GCCStatus, said:
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Latest official release of GCC from the MinGW project is GCC 3.4.5.
Latest official testing release of GCC from the MinGW project is
gcc-4.3.0-20080502-mingw32-alpha.
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The default download from MinGW sourceforge is the automated GUI
installer, which is recommended by MinGW document:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Compiler_Suite.
It also download 3.4.x.

However, the wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW, said the
stable release is "4.5.0".

I'm confused, is 4.5.0 a stable release or testing/beta release? And
could you update the website/document to make it clear?

And about the automated installer, I heard the current MinGW automated
GUI installer is no longer maintained, the the furture is mingw-get,
which has been waited for years. So, in the mean time, the only way
get MinGW official release is by download them one by one manually.

Because there is no clearly release schedule of long waited mingw-get,
is that possible MinGW team patch the current automated installer to
be able work with MinGW GCC 4.5? I know the current automated
installer has many problems, not perfect, but at least it works
currently, and in many of cases it is much better than download the
package one by one manually. And patching the existing installer is
very little work than creating a new one.

So, please make it work in the mean time, and then focus on the future
plan, mingw-get. Most people will happy with that, since at least we
have something easy to use. For advantage user, they can manually
download the package and do the customization.

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Regards

Tao Wang