From: John F. <jo...@ti...> - 2003-01-10 20:34:46
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Others have expressed my reservations about this plan exactly. I only need MinGW for WinAPI code, and one of the machines I compile on almost daily is an NT box at work, where I have no admin rights. Mandating that installing updates to MinGW would mess with the registry would perhaps cause a lot of problems, and at the least cause bloat for the MSYS part that I don't need. If I need './configure && make' software I just move over to my Linux or Solaris box. John Joerg Bruehe wrote: > Hi all! > > Greg Chicares wrote: > >>Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >>>I've been contemplating the next MinGW release. I'm wondering if I >>>shouldn't just package MSYS within this release. So here is the next poll. >> >>I don't like to say 'stupid', but I'd pick >> >> >>>[X] Sounds stupid, why would you ever to that? >> >>[...] >>But I think a lot of people don't need MSYS because they >>aren't building './configure && make' software. > > > As this is a poll: Me included - no need for MSYS here. > > I have standalone Unix-like utilities (tar, vim/ex, sed, zsh, ...) > that suit my needs and do not use the registry, all taken from > http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html > > >>MSYS is also different IIRC in that it modifies the >>registry and needs an uninstaller to clean up after it, >>while the other stuff above is uninstalled with 'rm'. > > > In that case, I explicitly do not want it on my machine. > > >>[...] >>The more things you include in the monolithic distro, [...] > > > IMHO, an up-to-date link from the MinGW core stuff to MSYS (both > docu and download) should be sufficient for MSYS users without > disturbing the others. > > Regards, > Joerg Bruehe > |