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Re: GCC-4.7.2-2: Go/No-go?
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:14:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC-4.7.2-2: Go/No-go?
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On 11/04/2013 11:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 11 01:58, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On 2013-04-11 01:02, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Yep, sure. *sigh*, I'm sure we'll suddenly find out that someone was using
>>> it and wants to know where it's gone. (I suppose if that happens I could
>>> always consider rolling a gcc3 package with all -3 suffixed executables.)
>> 3.4 is EOL and should have been dropped long ago; we simply don't
>> have the resources to support it ourselves. Just about any software
>> that people are building today either works with recent 4.x or the
>> distros have a patch for it.
>
> FWIW, I agree.
>
>
> AOL-Corinna
I said I could consider it, I didn't say I was necessarily going to do it :)
Still, you'd be surprised the number of questions I see on random websites
(stackoverflow, linuxquestions and similar) where someone's asking how to
install an old GCC to build some old software.
cheers,
DaveK