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Re: MinGW (Was: Re: PROPOSAL: Variation on an Alternate policy for obsoleting targets)
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: stl at caltech dot edu
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 20:08:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: MinGW (Was: Re: PROPOSAL: Variation on an Alternate policy for obsoleting targets)
- References: <000401c31e57$32c69910$3c9fd783@northwood>
> However, there are some platforms which are supported by non-gcc
> developers and aren't useful as-is from FSF sources, yet the
> platform's users desperately wish that gcc would work as-is.
The solution to that, is to make those non-gcc developers gcc
maintainers.
> Given MinGW's importance as the only real way to run gcc on Windows,
> I don't see why it's not even a secondary platform for gcc.
So make Danny the MinGW maintainer for GCC.
> I live in mortal fear that some day the MinGW developers will lose
> interest/be hit by a truck/whatever, and gcc will suddenly become
> unusable on Windows.
Don't forget about Cygwin and DJGPP, which also produce programs that
run under Windows. Not that I'm putting down MinGW, of course ;-)