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Subject: RE: Successful build of GCC 4.2.0 RC3 on latest Cygwin snapshot 20070427
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 16:44:02 +0100
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On 06 May 2007 16:38, Tim Prince wrote:

> dave.korn@artimi

  PCYM Tim, thanks

>> On 06 May 2007 14:56, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> 
>>> [removed mailing lists other than cygwin]
>>> 
>>> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>> So don't anybody here on the cygwin list get too excited yet. <g>
>> 
>>   Didn't actually spot the cygwin list had been cc'd in at first, but yes,
>> I'm just helping test the upstream release, this is not going to turn into
>> a cygwin package in the immediate future.
>> 
> 
> Is it reasonable to assume, then, that gcc 4.3 has as much chance of
> becoming a cygwin package, and put some effort into cleaning that up for
> cygwin?

  All this work has to go in on mainline as a matter of course.  It will then
become part of whichever is the next release branch.  There's next to no
chance of getting consent to back-port what is essentially new functionality
rather than regression fixes.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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