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

[Bernard Fouché]

Le 07/06/2010 23:15, Weddington, Eric a écrit :
> > > 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. :-)
>
>
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That was exactly what I was meaning, getting Linux and Windows releases 
at the same time or nearly same time, directly as an up to date distro 
package, instead of having to get WinAVR to get the correct set of 
patches and then compile yourself for Linux. WinAVR is also the 
'reference point':  if you think you have encountered a bug with the 
avr-gcc toolchain, the first thing to do is to check that your Linux 
environment is similar to what WinAVR provides at that time and only 
then you know that you may have found a 'real' avr-gcc bug (and usually 
it was a missing patch). I hope for Eric's plan for a long time...!