[fpc-devel] Summer of code collaboration

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
> > Note though that one of the reasons why FPC tools are old is because they
> > are the most up to date mingw versions. Before they abandonned the tools
> > we were using, and set up everything in MSYS.
> 
> At least the mingw binutils are still maintained:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/binutils/binutils-2.22. 
> The same goes for "make" (FPC 2.6.x has problems with make 3.82 though,
> not specific to Windows/mingw) and gdb at least.  Which abandoned tools do
> you mean?

Sven already replied, but roughly  in the coreutils package. (the former
findutils and diffutils iirc)