Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MinGW-w64 MSYS version questions.

[MARTIN P. <hic...@gm...>]

> Don't know, I use the latest MSYS stuff from their downloads site. 
Ok!

> So let's say i just put the original mingw-get binary in the
> MinGW-w64 version, it would then work with other programs
> installed via mingw-get?
> It should work, but again: if you like mingw-get, just use that. 
This is very interesting. i'm cloning a virtual machine and testing
right now. i would love to get mingw-get again!

> Then what is the point of the MinGW-w64 version of the MSYS
> package? Only changes to /etc or something more complex?
> This package originated from before mingw-get. I like the unzip+use philosophy for development tools, as I move stuff around a lot. So I manually downloaded all MSYS packages and stuffed them together. Nothing more :).
That's it? i'm guilty. i wrongly thought that this MinGW-w64
version of MSYS was patched to allow the new toolchain to
be ran from it. This is good news for me!

Thanks Ruben, you're helping me a lot understanding
how things are interacting all-together.

Pierre.