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Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?


On Sep  2 22:15, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 19:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > As the subject says, shouldn't we remove gcc3 from the distro finally?
> > We have 3 mingw compilers and gcc4 for Cygwin.  What reason is left
> > to stick to gcc 3?
> 
>   Well, it's the only support we have for Pascal and D.

Hmm.  And I don't see a Modula-2 compiler in gcc4 either.  All of them
exist as gcc frontends.  I guess it's just lack of maintainers for
these packages which keeps them from being in the distro?


Corinna

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