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Re: [MiNT] MiNT1.17 Changes



Alan Hourihane wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 09:57 +0000, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> > Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >
> > > > It's probably not a problem in this particular case. But what about the
> > > > future? Can we still use 2.95 for development?
> > >
> > > To be honest, we need to move with the times. I doubt the gcc folks are
> > > supporting 2.95, and we have 4.x binaries now. So why stick with 2.95 ?
> >
> > Because it runs on less powerfull machines, produces smaller binaries, and is 3x faster.
> >
> > I'll keep it up as long as possible.
>
> If it's trivial fixes then we should be able to make it work with both.
> Helmut - what fixes are on your branch that aren't on the trunk for
> this ?

It's quite a lot - you cannot do this on the fly, maybe next year ;-)

-Helmut