[R-SIG-Win] Will there be another release of the 4.6.3 based toolchain for Windows this year?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 08/10/2015 9:59 PM, Avraham Adler wrote:
> While I am eagerly awaiting an upgrade to a more modern toolchain, if there
> will be a wait, and another iteration of the current toolset is
> contemplated, may I request that it be compiled with lto activated
> (throwing --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,lto will suffice) so that
> whatever link-time optimizations are in 4.6.3 can be used? Currently, even
> though 4.6.3 has some LTO support, Rtools is not compiled with that support
> (as seen via gcc -v).
> 

There are no plans to make any changes to the compiler.  Some of the
utilities might be updated, but changing the compiler is a huge amount
of work, and just changing to 4.9.3 is going to be enough for us.

Duncan Murdoch