Re: Re[2]: [Mingw-users] new release??

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

--- Paul Sokolovsky <pa...@is...> wrote:
> Hello Earnie,
> 
> Earnie Boyd <ear...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> EB> --- Bruce Dodson <bru...@bi...> wrote:
> >> I'm wondering, what is the status of mingw?  I haven't seen any new stable
> >> release in almost a year; the last release of any kind was a pre-release
> >> snapshot from last January.  There were some nice enhancements in that
> >> snapshot, but I don't want to use a development snapshot for production
> >> work.  What ever happened to the release for which this was a pre-release?
> >> Have there been any non-official, but stable, releases since then?
> >>
> 
> EB> Be patient we're working on the next release.  No time estimate yet. 
> We're
> EB> first looking over Mumit's previous work so that we have a base to begin
> EB> working from.  Paul S. do you have any comments?
> 
>     Yes, we currently working on setting up infrastructure for
> project with distributed maintanance.
> 
>     As for releases, I think it's shame that most stable mingw32 build
> of entire history spends long time in "beta snapshot" status. My idea
> is simply re-release it with latest mingw runtime available
> (2000-03-xx vs 2000-02-xx). Since even that won't happen tomorrow, my
> binutils build might also fit there. But even first of all that, we
> should decide of packaging and installation conventions. I personally
> interested in having it in modularized (gcc/runtime/binutils separate)
> downloads (and uploads too ;-) ), still, most people will prefer
> all-in-one distro. I even think we should select "official" IDE for
> mingw and provide that off the site, too.
> 

For the ease of updating I would like to keep it modular.  We may be able to
modify Cygwin's new setup module for the purposes of giving the all-in-one
distro.  As for the "official" IDE, well, we might need to just make
suggestions as to what we believe to be the best ones and allow individual
choice.  An IDE is a personal choice of like and dislike and there are so many
to choose from.  If we make an official choice then it will have to be VIDE.

Cheers,

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