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- Subject: Re: [AD] Re: mingw not mingw32
- From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:46:50 -0700
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On Sunday 18 December 2005 07:37, Death Gauge wrote:
> I've seen this come up hundreds of times on IRC, a few times on A.cc, and
> now on here. Who cares if it is MinGW or MinGW32? The 32 is implied that is
> why it was removed from the name. Look at the Win API which until recently
> was also referred to as Win32 API. My question is this: WHO CARES? It isn't
> that big of a deal to see MinGW32 instead of MinGW and it isn't that big of
> the to have to type fix mingw32 with two extra characters. As for
> documentation, why fix it to match MinGW.org? MinGW32 is MinGW so therefore
> there isn't any thesible reason to mess with changing the appearances of
> one or the other.
Thats the problem though, it isn't implied, gcc/mingw is capable of running on
and generating binarys for 64bit windows platforms (itanium, amd64 etc).
> >>I've been looking at the website http://www.mingw.org/ . Some time ago
> >>the 32 was dropped from mingw32. Its official name is mingw now. I
> >>propose that all of the files and source code in allegro be changed from
> >>mingw32 to mingw.
> >
> >It's not worth changing it everywhere. Michal Molhanec "replaced all
> >occurences of MingW32 by MinGW in the docs" at some stage. I propose we
> >keep the same policy and leave "mingw32" in the source code and
> >makefiles and directory and file names and use "mingw" for
> >documentation.
> >
> >Attached is a patch to change a few more occurences where it is harmless
> >to do so.
> >
> >Peter
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Thomas Fjellstrom