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Is the next RC to be released today?

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thomas:

--- Quote from: accord on May 02, 2006, 12:01:19 pm ---Will RC3 contains the MinGW 4.x? instead of 3.x?

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That can safely be answered with "no".

It is not decided whether MinGW will be included at all in the base installation, but it is certain that it will not be a 4.x version. The 4.1/4.2 branches are unluckily not production quality at this time, and the 4.0 branch is not sufficiently superior to the 3.4 branch to justify the problems that it introduces. Also, all 4.x versions need to be compiled from sources, which is tedious and time consuming (on the order of hours, rather than minutes).

The likely thing you will get (no guarantees) will be a base installer without any compilers, and a MinGW package for the builtin web updater, so users can install MinGW with a few clicks when first running Code::Blocks.
Maybe, possibly, there will be a convenience package that already comes with MinGW preinstalled, too, but it will certainly not be 4.x.

TDragon:

--- Quote from: thomas on May 02, 2006, 01:43:26 pm ---...builtin web updater...

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This sets my spidey sense tingling...

Will this web updater indeed be available by RC3? I do see "Automatic updates" on the roadmap, but have seen nothing of it in the repository yet. Will this be a part of the rumored custom package system? Will it support "hotpatching" -- i.e. run it from C::B, update C::B, and automatically restart C::B?

My other reaction would be not to neglect the installer -- for a beginner, you can't beat being able to setup a fully working development environment with a few clicks. For NSIS installers, it's a simple matter to incorporate archives and a plugin that will extract them, or download them from the web and extract them (4.41 MB).

EDIT: So now I find out that my paid hosting has a 10 MB file size limit...so the installer with MinGW wasn't uploaded...sheesh.

thomas:

--- Quote from: TDragon on May 02, 2006, 05:30:11 pm ---Will this web updater indeed be available by RC3?
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That is one valid interpretation of the above post.


--- Quote ---I do see "Automatic updates" on the roadmap, but have seen nothing of it in the repository yet.
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Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments,
lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Revelation 16:15

--- Quote ---Will this be a part of the rumored custom package system? Will it support "hotpatching" -- i.e. run it from C::B, update C::B, and automatically restart C::B?
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I don't know much about rumours and buzz words like "hotpatching", sorry :)
But yes, it will be able to update Code::Blocks.

TDragon:
Consider me duly admonished. I shall await with excitement the third coming of the Code::Blocks. :)

peso:
While I'm happy using the nightly builds, RC3 has passed its roadmap date.
http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Roadmap_for_version_1.0

It would be nice to have an updated release date in the roadmap. (Is it two days or two months from now?) :-)

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