Continue drafting the release notes

Signed-off-by: Timothy Gu <timothygu99@gmail.com>
pull/515/merge
Timothy Gu 10 years ago
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<dt>2014-xx-xx &ndash; Release <span id="latest-version">2.23</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>
The <a href="#download">stable branch</a> was updated
to the current development version after a thorough
<a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2013-07/msg00021.html">testing phase</a>.
The <a href="#download">stable branch</a> was updated to the
current development version after a thorough <a
href="https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/FIXME">testing
phase</a>.
</p>
<p>
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</p>
<p>
Added support for <a href="#supported-toolchains">shared toolchains</a>.
Added support for <a href="#supported-toolchains">shared toolchains</a> for over 50% of all the packages.
</p>
<p>
Unfortunately, a number of factors have forced us to drop support
for MinGW 3 (i.e. "<a href="http://mingw.org/">MinGW.org</a>"),
in favor of the MinGW-w64 toolchain. This decision was made in a
large part because of the dropping of support for MinGW by <a
href="https://github.com/mxe/mxe/pull/453#issuecomment-51703048">
GLib</a> and <a
href="https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/492#issue-41366666">Qt5</a>,
which arguably are two of the most important packages in MXE.
Other considerations have also been taken, like the <a
href="https://github.com/mxe/mxe/pull/323#issuecomment-39463810">lack
of maintainership in MinGW</a> and <a
href="https://github.com/mxe/mxe/issues/400">potential legal
challenges</a> that comes with using supplemental DirectX
headers in MinGW in order to support Qt4. Worse yet, having to
support the unsupported MinGW toolchain impedes adding or
updating packages, as shown in the <a
href"https://github.com/mxe/mxe/pull/453#issuecomment-51703048">pull
request of updating GLib</a>.
</p>
<p>
Please note that dropping support for MinGW <strong>DOES NOT
MEAN</strong> dropping support for the 32-bit architecture. MinGW-w64
also supports 32-bit target through i686-w64-mingw32.
</p>
<p>
To ease migration to the supported MinGW-w64 target, we have
finished porting all packages that were MinGW-only to at least
i686-w64-mingw32 (32-bit target of MinGW-w64). Hence your existing
commands should work out-of-the-box assuming the
<code>MXE_TARGETS</code> environmental variable is set correctly.
</p>
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