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Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?


On Mar  6 04:29, Yaakov wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:55:43 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I'd be happy to get rid of it but don't people still use it?  We can't
> > have the gcc4 package overwriting someone's gcc3 if so.
> 
> For what exactly?  The only messages I have seen about it are those who
> installed 'gcc' thinking it was the current version only to realize
> they needed 'gcc4'.  No recent distro still supported 3.4, -mno-cygwin
> has been completely replaced by mingw64-*-gcc, and any software
> included in distributions that doesn't compile OOTB with 4.x will have
> patches available from those distros.  I think it's past time to scrap
> 3.4.

FWIW, I agree.


Corinna

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