Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: MinGW environment and toolchain update

[Ben Cotton]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F33MingwEnvToolchainUpdate

== Summary ==
Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream
stable releases.

== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:smani|Sandro Mani]]
* Email: manisandro(a)gmail.com


== Detailed Description ==

The following packages will be updated

* mingw-gcc to version 10.0.0
* mingw-w64-tools to version 7.0.0
* mingw-winpthreads to version 7.0.0
* mingw-crt to version 7.0.0
* mingw-headers to version 7.0.0
* mingw-binutils to version 2.34
* mingw-gdb to version 9.1

== Benefit to Fedora ==

Ship the latest available MinGW environment and GNU toolchain.

== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
The above mentioned packages will be updated. Build failures following
the mass rebuild will be inspected.

* Other developers:
Help with build failures may be requested.

* Release engineering: Impact check [https://pagure.io/releng/issue/9253]
* Release engineering: Mass rebuild requested
* Policies and guidelines: No policies need to be changed

== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
No impact

== How To Test ==
Update the system once the updated packages land, look out for new
build failures etc.

== User Experience ==
The features of the newest MinGW environment and GNU Toolchain will be
available to the users.

== Dependencies ==
None

== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Revert to older versions of environment /
toolchain, mass rebuild mingw packages again
* Contingency deadline: Before release
* Blocks release? Yes
* Blocks product? No

== Release Notes ==
Fedora 33 comes with the mingw-w64-7.0.0 environment, mingw-gcc-10,
mingw-gdb-9.1 and mingw-binutils 2.34.

-- 
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 16/03/20 11:23 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F33MingwEnvToolchainUpdate
>
> == Summary ==
> Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream
> stable releases.
>
> == Owner ==
> * Name: [[User:smani|Sandro Mani]]
> * Email: manisandro(a)gmail.com
>
>
> == Detailed Description ==
>
> The following packages will be updated
>
> * mingw-gcc to version 10.0.0 
That's not a GCC release. Does this mean a 10.0.1 pre-release version
from GCC Git, or the 10.1.0 release that is expected in a few weeks?

[Sandro Mani]

On 16.03.20 18:27, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>  On 16/03/20 11:23 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F33MingwEnvToolchainUpdate
> >
> > == Summary ==
> > Update the MinGW base environment and toolchain to the latest upstream
> > stable releases.
> >
> > == Owner ==
> > * Name: [[User:smani|Sandro Mani]]
> > * Email: manisandro(a)gmail.com
> >
> >
> > == Detailed Description ==
> >
> > The following packages will be updated
> >
> > * mingw-gcc to version 10.0.0
>
>  That's not a GCC release. Does this mean a 10.0.1 pre-release version
>  from GCC Git, or the 10.1.0 release that is expected in a few weeks?
>  
Correct, was a bit sloppy with the version numbers there. Essentially 
it's about GCC-10.x, wiki page updated.

Sandro