PRE-ANN: mingw32 toolchain packages to be discontinued

[Chris Johns]

On 1/08/12 2:06 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A headsup to all mingw32 toolchain package users.
>
> The packages below ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/mingw32/
> will be discontined at a yet undetermined point in time within the next
> couple of months [1].
>
> They are supposed to be replaced by the packages below
> ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/mingw64/*/i686 (32bit windows)
> or
> ftp://ftp.rtems.org/pub/rtems/mingw64/*/x86_64 (64bit windows)
>
> As I am not using Windows for RTEMS and do not have access to 64bit
> windows, and because nobody has reported any testing results for these
> toolchains, I'd strongly encourage all Windows users to switch to the
> mingw64 toolchains ASAP.

Which upstream project is this based on ? mingw-w64.sourceforge.net ?

Chris