Re: [Mingw-users] Portable MSYS ?

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 08/05/11 17:59, Keith Marshall wrote:
> I wasn't even aware that the PortableApps.com folks offered their
> own flavour of MinGW/MSYS.  I just did a search on their site, and
> sure enough, yes, there is something there, (although they seem to
> have dropped MSYS from their offering, which appears from reading
> their development notes, to be focussed on GCC3).

Yuck!  Their info page is a disorganised mish-mash of naturally threaded
dialogue, intermingled with notes in reverse chronological ChangeLog
order.  Yuck!  Yuck! and thrice Yuck!

Closer inspection reveals that they do now offer a GCC-4.5 bundle,
(but no MSYS), all wrapped up in a less-than-transparent NSIS based
installer, which I guess makes for reduced flexibility in choice of
add-on components, if you don't like their restricted choice.

I will not be rushing to use their package; I'll stick with my own
installation technique, (which gives me the full flexibility of a
mingw-get managed installation -- it was this inflexibility of NSIS
which led us to dump it, in favour of developing mingw-get).

I guess it might be useful if I were to write up my installation
procedure as a MinGWiki article, when I can find a round-tuit.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.