cross framework, mingw-w64 toolchain, wine gecko

Erik van Pienbroek erik at vanpienbroek.nl
Sun Apr 10 14:49:14 UTC 2011


Kai Tietz schreef op zo 10-04-2011 om 16:35 [+0200]:
> 2011/4/10 Erik van Pienbroek <erik at vanpienbroek.nl>:
> > I'm okay with switching to the trunk branch, but I don't know how stable
> > the trunk branch is at the moment and whether compatibility-breaking
> > changes are expected in the coming months. Perhaps the mingw-w64
> > maintainers (who are also joined on the fedora-mingw mailing list) can
> > respond to that?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Erik van Pienbroek
> 
> Erik,
> 
> The trunk version is a stable version. We on mingw-w64 are using
> rolling releases. Which means our trunk is in general stable. New
> features are prepared in our experimental tree and first after making
> sure that they are stable enough, we merge new features to trunk.
> Additionally I would recomment for newer gcc versions then 4.5.x to
> use in general trunk version.  On trunk we addressed some specific new
> features available.

Hi Kai,

Thanks for your information. I'll use the trunk branch from now on. Once
the new packaging guidelines are approved I'll prepare a new set of
packages based on the mingw-w64 trunk branch and publish them in the
testing repositories.

Kind regards,

Erik van Pienbroek




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