Re: [Mingw-users] Mingw does not allow a quick evaluation test

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

--- Jan-Oliver Wagner <ja...@in...> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I planned to test mingw as an development environment for
> Windows. Being a Free Software developer I am not too
> familiar with windows but, alas, sometimes you can not
> get around that OS.
> 
> To make it short: I was not able to perform the quick
> evaluation test.
> 
> To let you know I list the items that occured:
> 
> - what should be downloaded? 
> 	The download link goes to sourceforge, but
> 	the files listed there are not in sync with what is
> 	described on the link for the "latest development snapshot".
> 	The latter
> 

I will be rectifying this link shortly.  It does not fit the format for the
rest of the site.

>
(ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/gcc-2.95.2-1/)
> 	is not exactly in sync with the installation description again,
> 	but fits better.
> 
> - how to install?
> 	The corresponding FAQ is very short and (see above) out of sync with
> 	the downbloadable files. What I am missing is a quick guide to
> 	"Hello World".
> 
> - missing tools?
> 	The installation guide results in a installation without make, tar
> 	and a shell.
> 	While the latter is not that important, how should I unpack the
> 	tar.gz updates?
> 
> I am pretty sure that I will get the mingw up and running if I spend
> some time in it (you provide lots of documents).
> I like your basic idea, but propose to make it easier
> to just start with. Once started people will spend more time with it
> an learn.
> 

All of this is a big concern, and the who of us that are working on it are
limited in time.  There is no commercial backing in MinGW, so there is no full
time support.

> And finally: I intended to send this not to the mailing list,
> but the place where I expected to have a contact for the team
> was empty: http://www.mingw.org/who.shtml
> 

Well, the mailing list is the best place to send this.  However, the who page
will updated after the download page is written.

> And the very last question:
> Why the hell do I get lots of animated pictures etc when I go
> to http://mingw.org/ instead of http://www.mingw.org/?
> 

The http://mingw.org/ designation isn't in any public DNS.

> Good luck with the further development of mingw!
> 

Thanks, would you be interested in volunteering your spare time in the future
development?

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:ear...@ya...

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