From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2010-04-20 14:12:31
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Bugs item #2987815, was opened at 2010-04-15 20:42 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by love4boobies You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102435&aid=2987815&group_id=2435 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. 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)! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102435&aid=2987815&group_id=2435 |