mingwrap -> mingcc

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Thu Dec 19 00:09:45 CST 2002


Francois Gouget wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
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>>On December 18, 2002 03:36 pm, Francois Gouget wrote:
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>>>  winegcc
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>>Why not wgcc?
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>I had the impression that we were going away from just using 'w' as the
>prefix and more towards using 'wine'. So I'm proposing both forms.
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>>So I am OK with the following:
>>  wgcc
>>  mingcc
>>  wmingcc
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>I think the ones I prefer are 'wgcc' and 'winegcc'. In both cases we can
>add variants: wcl / winecl (Visual C++), wbcc / winebcc (Borland C++ if
>memory serves), etc.
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I'm all for winegcc and these variants. It's not that much longer to 
type, it's much
clearer (nobody's going to look at their /usr/bin directory and think 
'what's wgcc?'),
and most of the time it's going to be in a Makefile anyway.

David





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