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

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

<quote who="Greg Chicares">
> 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"
>

Worse in my opinion.  MinGW is more than GCC.


Earnie

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