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

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

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Earnie <ea...@us...> wrote:
> Tao Wang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The page: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/GCCStatus, said:
>> -----
>> 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.
>> -----
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> This document was created when 3.4.x was the current recommended version
> and the version the old automated installer named as current.
>

So, what you saying is that the document is out of date, right?

>> However, the wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW, said the
>> stable release is "4.5.0".
>>
>
> I don't know who even updates this page, certainly not Keith and likely
> not Cesar.  I know I don't, that said we've warned before that
> information about MinGW not contained at www.mingw.org is not to be
> taken seriously.
>

Information on MinGW document is out of date, and information from
other place should not to be taken seriously. So, where should we get
the information?

>> 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?
>>
>
> The file download page is where you would need to concern yourself with
> what is delivered. If something is pre-release or beta it will say so.
> After looking at http://sourceforge.net/downloads/mingw/ I don't see
> anything in the GCC 4 folder to indicate that 4.5.0 is a beta release.
>

To make it clear, so you, as a member of MinGW, declare that MinGW GCC
4.5.0 is a stable release, which is hinted by its name, since no
testing/beta attached, right? So, Wikipedia is correct this time,
right?

> Note, it isn't our job to make yours easier faster than we can put the
> time we have into our hobby.  We are not paid by you or anyone else to
> deliver to you something you think would benefit you.  Therefore we are
> laughing out loud with hilarity at the demand you put forth with no
> gratuitous offer to anyone to cause your demand to be met.

I'm not quite understand, I saw this kind of words many times spread
in this mailling list. I thought almost all GNU or opensource
developers are coding for fun, and nobody is intend to get paid for
their project. Is anything make MinGW so special about this? Most
people in opensource community are not as negative as members in MinGW
about user feature request.  You keep saying that you are not paid by
the feature requester, but who is different? As I know, most people in
open source project are not paid. And I also know some projects are
sponsored by some companies. so, does it make you unhappy about
sponsors thing?

So, please be friendly, open mind and positive to users. It is the
biggest support and recognize to you that they are using your works
and trying to communicate with you.

-- 
Regards

Tao Wang