Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] mingw-get upgrade

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 17/05/11 20:53, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 5/17/2011 3:25 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> > On 16/05/11 21:33, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> >> Unless this version also contains the name-parsing fix/extension...it
>>> >> doesn't seem to:
>> > 
>> > It doesn't.  I was holding that for release 0.3, which I hope to post by
>> > the end of the month; you may wish to wait until then.
>> > 
>> > FTR, although the patch for the name parsing extension seems good, and
>> > ready to go, I want to ensure that I can devise a mechanism for passing
>> > options into climain(), without requiring an ABI break.  My first idea
>> > in this direction would have required such a break, which I'd also have
>> > liked to absorb in 0.3, (with a corresponding bump in DLL version), but
>> > I now believe I may have a workable technique which avoids any break.
> 
> OK, I'll wait.  However, that means mingw-get-0.3 is a release blocker
> for Cesar's gcc-$next, unless (a) we re-re-package pthreads-w32 using a
> name that sorts correctly and doesn't break mingw-get-$current [*], or
> (b) Cesar builds gcc-$next using pthreads-w32-$old.

mingw-get-0.3-alpha-1 released today -- right on schedule, per my
private communication of 2011-05-21 :-)

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Regards,
Keith.