GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

Future Availability of Downloads

Asked by Remo Pillat

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to deprecate the downloads of previous versions of the toolchain?
In particular, I am currently using version 4.6-2012-q4-update and my installer automatically downloads the toolchain as part of its setup. If possible, I would like to preserve this functionality in the future, so I wanted to verify how long the downloads of older versions are scheduled to stay online.

By the way, this new toolchain is well-maintained and works great with the arm7tdmi that I am targeting, so thanks for creating this project in the first place.

Thanks.

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Best Joey Ye (jinyun-ye) said : 		#1

Remo,

Those who older than 2 years won't be maintained. But we will keep the
latest version of a serie available on the website when purging. In another
word, unless pinned on a non-latest version, you will always be able to
download it.

Will that work for you?

Thanks,
Joey

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Remo Pillat <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #238305 on GCC ARM Embedded:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+question/238305
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there are any plans to deprecate the downloads of
> previous versions of the toolchain?
> In particular, I am currently using version 4.6-2012-q4-update and my
> installer automatically downloads the toolchain as part of its setup. If
> possible, I would like to preserve this functionality in the future, so I
> wanted to verify how long the downloads of older versions are scheduled to
> stay online.
>
> By the way, this new toolchain is well-maintained and works great with the
> arm7tdmi that I am targeting, so thanks for creating this project in the
> first place.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are an answer
> contact for GCC ARM Embedded.
>

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Remo Pillat (remo-pillat) said : 		#2

Hi Joey,

Thanks for the quick reply. This will definitely work for me, since I'm currently pinned to the latest version of the 4.6 series, i.e. 4.6-2012-q4-update.

Regards,
Remo

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Remo Pillat (remo-pillat) said : 		#3

Thanks Joey Ye, that solved my question.