RE: [avr-gcc-list] WinAVR discontinued ?!?!?

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 19:03 +0200, Bernard Fouché wrote:
> > It's still tricky to have WinAVR quality on Linux
> What do you mean by that? I've been working on linux for 
> quite some time
> now and I'm wondering what the gcc in WinAVR could do better than my
> avr-gcc installed from the repositories?


Typically there is a delay between when WinAVR is released, with the latest 
patches to nominally recently released versions of the tools, and when the 
Linux distros pick them up and offer a package for the end user. What I would 
like to do is to close this delay gap, and eventually offer identical toolchain 
releases on multiple platforms (e.g. Windows, Mac, and 2 popular Linux distros) 
at the same time, or nearly the same time. "Identical" in this case means 
having a single package that includes the same tools, at the same versions, 
with the same patch sets. Well, that's the plan at least. :-)