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Re: gcc4: Time to drop gcc3 from the distro?
On Sep 6 21:06, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 20:40 +0200, 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?
>
> Based on Dave's response, only GDC. Therefore, I would say that once
> he's ready to ship a GDC-enabled gcc-4.5+, then gcc3 can and should go,
> at which point gcc4 can become gcc and the -4 suffixes can be dropped.
Sounds right to me. It's a pity that we don't have another good
replacement for Pascal(*) and Modula-2(**), but that doesn't mean we
have t ostick to gcc3 endlessly.
Corinna
(*) Porting FreePascal, anybody?
(**) ???
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