Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW's name a bit odd [was: Setting the time zone]

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

<quote who="Tor Lillqvist">
>
> With hindsight, mingw's name is a bit odd too, though. The phrase
> "Minimalistic GNU for Windows" doesn't really correspond to what mingw
> is. Someone should invent a better expansion for "mingw"...
>

It's name is historical.  In its beginning only a small set of files
representing the headers and import libraries for MSVCRT were provided to
be used with Cygwin's GCC to create "native" programs.  Then someone else
decided to create a version of the compiler using those headers and import
libraries without Cygwin.  Thusly, minimal requirements for building
native programs.

I at some point asked the developer list about the name and it was agreed
to live with it.  SF has MinGW with MSYS as a environment choice. 
Changing the name now would not be in our best interest.

Earnie

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