[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-2987815 ] Duplicate items in installer?

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Bugs item #2987815, was opened at 2010-04-15 20:42
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Category: MinGW Installer
Group: Unreproducible
Status: Closed
Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 1
Private: No
Submitted By: Oleksandr Gavenko (gavenkoa)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Duplicate items in installer?

Initial Comment:
I just download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.6/MinGW-5.1.6.exe/download

run and see 2 'runtime' items for selection (one selected, one deselected)!


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Comment By: Love4Boobies (love4boobies)
Date: 2010-04-20 17:12

Message:
> We have moved
> on, to mingw-get. If you are willing to help us to test alpha-quality
> code, so should you, otherwise you should revert to manual package
> upgrades.

This is a typo. He meant low-quality, not alpha quality.

Cheers,
Bogdan

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Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2010-04-20 13:14

Message:
So, apparently the installed.ini file left behind by your original use of
MinGW-5.1.4 is incompatible with, and breaks MinGW-5.1.6.  You have
encountered the primary issue with the entire series of MinGW-5.x.x
installers; they don't scale well, and they don't adapt readily to changing
installation requirements.  (They also take way too much control away from
the user, when performing a package upgrade).  This is why they are
deprecated, and why I have designated this as "Won't Fix".  We have moved
on, to mingw-get.  If you are willing to help us to test alpha-quality
code, so should you, otherwise you should revert to manual package
upgrades.

MinGW-5.x.x is dead. This really isn't going to be fixed, ever, by any
means other than a complete migration to mingw-get.

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Comment By: Oleksandr Gavenko (gavenkoa)
Date: 2010-04-20 00:06

Message:
Note exactly after license screen I got info type MessageBox:

  "Package current being updated."

and I have previously installed MinGW 5.1.4.

Difference between your and my behavior in
new/fresh install (your) and update install (my) cases.

Also in contrast on my screen shot there no combobox
with Minimal/Full type of install.

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Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2010-04-16 13:59

Message:
Where do you see this?  When I run MinGW-5.1.6, I don't see any reference
to "runtime" items.  There are two component packages to be installed for
the MinGW runtime, but both should be implicitly installed when you select
the "MinGW base tools" category, (as you must for a successful
installation), and they don't explicitly appear in any selection list that
I can see.

In any case, the entire MinGW-5.1.x series of installers is considered
deprecated; the upcoming "mingw-get" tool will replace it.  Contrary to an
earlier (now hidden) comment by an ill-informed troublemaker, (who is in no
way affiliated with this project, and never will be), and unlike the old
NSIS based installers, mingw-get is NOT confined to only delivering
outdated GCC binaries.  At present, yes it has been provided only with a
distribution manifest which reproduces the payload of the MinGW-5.1.x
installers, but it is trivially easy to change that, and that will happen
just as soon as Cesar Strauss feels comfortable with delivery of GCC-4.5
via this conduit.  The reason mingw-get has not yet been promoted as the
default installer for MinGW is that it is still in the alpha phase of
development, and some of its intended functionality is missing, but it is
already a capable CLI-invoked installer; download it, unpack it into a
virgin C:\MinGW tree, and in a cmd.exe window run:

  d:\> C:
  C:\> cd \MinGW\bin
  C:\MinGW\bin> mingw-get install g++

and you should get a working GCC-3.4.5 installation for C/C++

(If you want to use a directory other than C:\MinGW for your installation,
then after you've unpacked mingw-get, and BEFORE you run it for the first
time, you'll need to modify the sysroot settings in its
var/lib/mingw-get/data/profile.xml accordingly; in this case, please do
avoid choosing a path with white space in its absolute name).

After running mingw-get for the first time, you will be able to identify
other installable packages by inspection of its
var/lib/mingw-get/data/package-index.xml file, (this name will change from
alpha-2 onwards); look for the "name" and "alias" attributes in the
"<package>" elements.

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