Version numbering of gcc in setup.ini - Jonathan Yong?

JonY 10walls@gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 18:28:00 GMT 2015


On 1/29/2015 19:57, Houder wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Just wondering ...
> 
> While doing some VERY LIMITED testing of Corinna's latest TEST version of setup.exe, I was FORCED (:-P)
> to take a harder look at the "interface" of setup.exe ...
> 
> (meaning, normally, I only upgrade ... I never downgrade a package)
> 
> Currently, I have version 4.8.3-4 of "gcc" installed ...
> 
> Twente (the Cygwin mirror site, from which I retrieve my packages) shows the following:
> 
> gcc 4.8.3-2  25/07/14 (that is, 25th of July, 2014)
>          -3  17/08/14
>          -4  15/11/14
> 
> gcc 4.9.2-1  03/11/14 (euh? ... well, why not)
> 
> Setup allows me to keep or UNinstall 4.8.3-4 (FOUR!), but NOT to retrieve that version of gcc ...
> Surprisingly, it allows me to retrieve version 4.8.3-2 ...
> 
> Looking at the latest setup.ini shows me the following for "gcc":
> 
> current: 4.9.2-1
> previous: 4.8.3-2
> 
> As far as I understand, -4 is the "best" release of version 4.8.3-*. Just wondering ... I would say that
> setup.ini SHOULD show -4 as previous. What do say?
> 

-3 and -4 is broken iirc, I had to revert to -2 to build 4.9.x.



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