Re: [Mingw-users] Installing MinGW and MSYS is such a pain

[KHMan <kei...@gm...>]

someone somebody wrote:
> "In a couple of years" are you serious or sarcastic :P
> The scripts you mentioned look nice (I didn't have time to try them)
> If they work well maybe they should be linked from the MinGW website? 
> (At least until a full GUI installer is available)

An alternate view...

If you're approaching this with the wrong attitude, you'll always 
be frustrated at what's lacking. F/LOSS development is almost 
always very resource-limited except for some big ones like the 
Linux kernel.

Given the available resources, the developers have no duty to 
provide the tools to users like they are a "product" that has to 
meet certain levels of "convenience" or "usability". I'm happy 
that it compiles stuff, that's all.

We paid USD0.00 for it, so let us try to work within the 
limitations for now, shall we? Perhaps you would like to donate or 
contribute...

Plan for "in a couple of years". Expect highly complex tools to 
require some attention. So write everything down. Pilots use 
lists, hospitals are starting too -- this is similar.

Have some careful notes written in a file or notebook. Setting it 
up is very easy once you have chosen your particular set of files 
(especially MSYS, if you don't need or want everything.)

I updated mine a few weeks ago, spent some time studying the docs 
and files. If I couldn't figure it out, then I thought it was my 
failure that I don't know enough about the tools. So apply some 
systematic problem-solving.

The next time around, it should be dead easy if you go back and 
use your notes. It's all a matter of planning.

> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:46 PM, LRN wrote:
>     On 01.05.2010 19:37, someone somebody wrote:
> [snip]

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia