On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Kai Tietz <ktiet...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello Ruben, > > 2013/6/23 Ruben Van Boxem <vanboxem.ru...@gmail.com>: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have come to the conclusion that my MinGW-w64 builds bring too little to >> the table for me to continue maintaining them. >> >> I strongly encourage you to use the plethora of toolchains in a multitude of >> configurations available at mingw-builds. Comparing download numbers they >> have a much higher visibility, and e.g. their adoption by the Qt Project >> speaks of their quality. They have succeeded in doing what I missed when I >> decided to start building GCC, so my effort spent in doing that is now >> wasted. >> >> I may dabble into getting Clang 3.3 to work on Windows, perhaps even with >> libc++, but I am not promising anything. >> >> I'll still linger around here though, don't worry. >> >> All the best, >> >> Ruben > > First, I want to thank you for your hard work you've spent into > providing your excellent toolchains over the last years. I am sad to > hear that you discontinue it, but I am lucky to hear that you will be > still reading this ML. > > Indeed it would be great, if you could put your build-experience into > some documentation/build-scripts in our Wiki/repository. This > information is for sure of much interest to our community. Any work > on that is mostly appreachiated. > > That you think that mingw-builds is doing a better job as you did is > at least for our community a least one good news ... nevertheless is > mingw-builds a different venture, and I am not sure if we should drop > that easy our own toolchains. I admit that as long as mingw-builds is > well maintained, and build regular toolchains on sane-state of > toolchain, it is ok, but as soon as this might not happen anymore we > are getting in serious troubles. I don't think we should let > third-party ventures manage our work exclusive and not providing some > base-knowledge and environment by ourself.
Very well said, and I second this. I hope Ruben reconsiders. > > Thanks for your work and all the best, > Kai -- O.S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
