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RE: Maintainer searched
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: "cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 10:38:44 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: RE: Maintainer searched
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
--- Dave Korn wrote:
>
> Well I didn't finish rolling the lot over the weekend owing to reasons I'll
> explain on the talk list, but I'm saying yes anyway. First thing I'll do
> will
> be reroll a 3.4.4-2 with the fix for PR-whateveritis about the C++
> strings-vs-dlls problem. Once that's done and seems ok, I'll look at making
> an experimental package from one of the gcc 4 series. (Anyone got any
> preferences?)
>
>
Dave,
The octave and octave-forge packages will greatly benefit from the first bug
fix. I'll produce new releases ASAP following a gcc 3.4.4-2 bug-fix release.
Thanks for signing on to this important maintenance responsibility.
Do you suppose there is any chance of releasing libstdc++ as a dll for gcc
3.4.4-2 ? This would greatly reduce the size of the octave and octave-forge
packages.
There is also some consensus that octave performance is hampered by the sjlj
exception handling scheme. I wonder if it is necessary that mingw and cygwin
use the same method - perhaps mingw could carry sjlj forward as it is more
important for win32 programming, while cygwin could plan a transition to
dwarf2, which perhaps aligns better with the paradigm of porting linux apps.
Just a thought.
Jim Phillips
[Dave, sorry I sent the first copy to you instead of the ML]