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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:33:48 -0600
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: g++ 2.95.3 (FAQ alert)
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In-Reply-To: <20040317182604.GA8621@redhat.com>; from cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:26:04PM -0500

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:26:04PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:14:30PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:56:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:43:42AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >> >On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:18:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 06:03:05PM +0100, Luis Valent?n wrote:
> >> >> >Where can I find the gcc-g++ 2.95.3 cygwin package ?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Cygwin used to offer gcc 2.95 but it is no longer available.  Possibly
> >> >> it is available on old mirror out there somewhere but there is no
> >> >> official support in cygwin.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Joshua/David, is there any chance that we can get this info into the
> >> >> FAQ?
> >> >
> >> >No. Definitely not. 
> >> >
> >> >Please see <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC10>
> >> 
> >> ? This is a generic entry.  Given the number of times this question has
> >> been specifically asked, I was thinking it deserved a specific entry, say
> >> in the TOC.
> >
> >Well, it has gcc-2.95 listed in the title:
> >
> >"Can I use Cygwin Setup to get old versions of packages (like gcc-2.95)?"
> 
> Ah.  I guess this must have been in my cache since when I looked at it, it said:
> "Can I use Cygwin Setup to update a B18, B19, B20, B20.1 or CD-ROM (1.0) installation of 
> Cygwin?"

Yeah, I figured that one was outdated enough to nuke.
You may have actually looked at it before I updated it, since I sent the email
before committing the faq_toc change. Since the alert was from a couple days
ago, I didn't expect anyone to be watching immediately. :)

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