Re: [Mingw-users] Updated: mingw32-make-3.82-5

[Charles W. <cwi...@us...>]

On 2/14/2011 2:07 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:

> How do you install mingw-get the first time?  You can't just
> 
>    mingw-get install mingw-get
> 
> because you don't have mingw-get.exe to run that yet; you need to
> bootstrap the first-time installation, in this case by manually
> unpacking a zip-file or a tarball.  However, that doesn't set up the
> record which tells mingw-get that it has been installed; you still
> need to run
> 
>    mingw-get install mingw-get
> 
> to complete the bootstrap, before 'mingw-get upgrade mingw-get' can be
> used for subsequent upgrades.  To me, that doesn't seem particularly
> intuitive, so ultimately, I hope to find a more elegant way to work
> around the issue.
> 

Hmm.  This is easily handled by mingw-get-inst for first-time installs,
but I don't think it would be a good idea to add that to
mingw-get-inst's invocation of mingw-get, if future versions of
mingw-get will do something smarter without such external help.

It might make sense for mingw-get to (internally) create a "virtual"
mingw-get installation record and insert it into its (in-memory)
database, if an external "real" installation record is not found...

Obviously if mingw-get is running, then it has been "installed"
somewhere -- but that "somewhere" might not be exactly what you expect.
 That is, if somebody uses Windows Explorer to "browse" inside the
mingw-get .zip file distibution package, and executes it from there, the
derived "installation" path would be something like
%APP_PROFILES%/Temporary Internet Files/blah blah/

Not good.

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Chuck


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Chuck