Re: [Mingw-users] Stop on first error?

[Peter R. <p.r...@sh...>]

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> This is the third time in a very short time I have had to tell this
> story. It seems to me this message should be (more obviously) on the
> site. On top of that, I would like to urge you to do the following:
> provide a method to install a recent version of gcc (other than
> manual). Perhaps this means that mingw-get should be able to install
> gcc 4 real soon, perhaps this means that you should adapt some
> temporary install method as "official" until mingw-get is able to
> install gcc 4. I am afraid you are shooting yourself in the foot and
> losing users by not doing so. I don't like to have to mention other
> mingw projects in order to be able to mention recent mingw installers.

Unfortunately, have to say I agree! The first item you come to on the SF 
downloads page is "Automated MinGW Installer" which one would reasonably 
assume to be the THE installer. The user comments on SF mostly run along 
the lines of "great toolchain - nightmare install". The 5.1.6 installer 
is still getting ~2000 downloads a day.

I was planning to have a look at the code for the old Nullsoft installer 
to see how easy this would be to update, if only for my own use, but 
haven't got far due to pressures of work. Might an update of the 
installer be a good short-term fix until mingw-get is ready (as a GUI)?


Peter