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

[Greg C. <chi...@co...>]

On 2005-01-22 16:36 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> <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"...
> 
> 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.

Without changing the name "MinGW", you could say it stands for
- "Minimalist GNU for Windows"
+ "Minimalist GCC for Windows"