From: amores p. <lif...@ho...> - 2005-10-21 15:20:13
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>From: Keith MARSHALL >Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW 5.0.0 installer feed back >Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:39:40 +0100 >http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/GettingStarted > >I added this, under the "Quick Intro" heading: > > This section gives a very brief overview of the installation > procedure for MinGW, and related packages; more detailed, package > specific instructions will be found below. Note that, unless you > are installing for shared use by multiple user's, you should not > need administrative privileges to install any MinGW package. Great! BTW, I think that by multiple user's should be by multiple users :) |
From: Keith M. <kei...@to...> - 2005-10-21 16:11:58
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Amores Perros wrote, quoting me: >>I added this, under the "Quick Intro" heading: >> >> This section gives a very brief overview of the installation >> procedure for MinGW, and related packages; more detailed, package >> specific instructions will be found below. Note that, unless you >> are installing for shared use by multiple user's, you should not >> need administrative privileges to install any MinGW package. > > Great! > > BTW, I think that > by multiple user's > should be > by multiple users Quite correct. I've fixed it. Thanks. Regards, Keith. |
From: Michael G. <mg...@te...> - 2005-10-18 18:12:52
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> > I would like the installer to ask before setting the PATH to the > > newly installed mingw bin directory. A simple check box that is > > checked by default is all I ask for, so I can uncheck it. >=20 > Just curious -- why would you want to do this? Because I don't want *ANY* program whatsoever to mess around with my environment without asking for permission ! Maybe I simply don't want MinGW added by default because I do have more than one version installed ? Or I do have commands with the same name elsewhere in my path ? Or I already do have MinGW in the path (and/or have carefully crafted the ordering of directories) ? I have no problem to come up with more reasons. The point is that I want to have the option to choose. And as the original poster suggested: A preselected checkbox would do the job. Best, Michael =2D-=20 Vote against SPAM - see http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Michael Gerdau email: mg...@te... GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver |
From: Greg C. <chi...@co...> - 2005-10-18 18:28:44
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On 2005-10-18 17:09 UTC, Michael Gerdau wrote: >>>I would like the installer to ask before setting the PATH to the >>>newly installed mingw bin directory. A simple check box that is >>>checked by default is all I ask for, so I can uncheck it. >> >>Just curious -- why would you want to do this? > > Because I don't want *ANY* program whatsoever to mess around > with my environment without asking for permission ! [snip several compelling reasons] Is this a change from the February 2005 installer--a change that alters the system path in the master environment, affecting all programs? If so, I think it's a misfeature, and shouldn't be the default behavior if it's offered at all. |
From: Shadow2531 <sha...@tb...> - 2005-10-18 23:57:00
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Michael Gerdau wrote: >>>I would like the installer to ask before setting the PATH to the >>>newly installed mingw bin directory. A simple check box that is >>>checked by default is all I ask for, so I can uncheck it. >> >>Just curious -- why would you want to do this? > > > Because I don't want *ANY* program whatsoever to mess around > with my environment without asking for permission ! > > Maybe I simply don't want MinGW added by default because I do > have more than one version installed ? I know I definitely wouldn't want it to force a path modification. I don't want mingw in the path anyway myself. I use a shortcut with a command like this: %COMSPEC% /K "set PATH=%SystemDrive%\mingw\bin;%PATH% && set RM=del && cd %USERPROFILE%\desktop && cls && echo MinGW 3.4.2 && prompt $P$_$_$G$S" Shadow2531 |
From: Pascal B. <pb...@tr...> - 2005-10-19 06:24:40
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Keith MARSHALL wrote: > Pascal Buhler wrote: > >>Should feed back go to this list ?? > > > Yes. > > >>I would like the installer to ask before setting the PATH to the >>newly installed mingw bin directory. A simple check box that is >>checked by default is all I ask for, so I can uncheck it. > > > Just curious -- why would you want to do this? > > Perhaps Dave Murphy could comment on how feasible this might be. > It seams that other people have answered this for me :-), and almost all of those reasons are true for me. For user level applications adding to the PATH maybe acceptable but for development tools it is just a hindrance. Not even Microsoft do it ;-) . Thanks for considering it. Pascal |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@pr...> - 2005-10-19 12:53:46
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Quoting Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...>: > Pascal Buhler wrote: >> Should feed back go to this list ?? > > Yes. > >> I would like the installer to ask before setting the PATH to the >> newly installed mingw bin directory. A simple check box that is >> checked by default is all I ask for, so I can uncheck it. > > Just curious -- why would you want to do this? > > Perhaps Dave Murphy could comment on how feasible this might be. > FYI, the installers I've created never updated the PATH. I left it as an exercise for the user. I would prefer the checkbox, with a default of off. The problem with updating the PATH automagically is that the user may have prerequisites for the PATH setting they have and adding to PATH may disturb those prerequisites. Earnie |
From: Dave M. <win...@nt...> - 2005-11-17 14:10:12
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I've just completed work on getting the latest Insight/gdb building under msys/mingw, the news item can be found here, http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=511897 . This should be quite an improvement over my earlier build of a hybrid Insight 6.1 and gdb 6.3 and requires a mere 32k patch as opposed to some 200k or so required for the earlier release. Unfortunately it appears this release will only work on NT-based systems (Windows NT, 2000 and XP) due to the use of psapi.dll. in recent versions of GDB. Somewhere in the mists of time I seem to remember someone mentioning this problem with the gdb 6.3 snapshot release and a possible work round, does anyone remember where or what this might have been? Dave |
From: Dave M. <win...@nt...> - 2005-11-17 14:21:08
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It looks like the recent SourceForge updates have broken a few things on the mingw.org website. The file release table is non existent and the news items appear to be squashed into the right of the page (in Firefox at least) Dave |
From: Keith M. <kei...@to...> - 2005-11-17 16:12:26
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Dave Murphy wrote: > It looks like the recent SourceForge updates have broken a few > things on the mingw.org website. The file release table is > non existent and the news items appear to be squashed into the > right of the page (in Firefox at least) We knew this was going to happen. The file release table is generated by a TCL script, run by cron, to propagate information from the SF download site into the mingw.org site. The SF updates have broken the parsing rule in this script, so the mingw.org site doesn't get updated. Earnie wrote the original script, I believe, but he has no time at present to modify it. I am trying to get my head around it, but I too have limited time to work on it. If anyone else would like to step forward, and volunteer to do this work, it would be very much appreciated. Best regards, Keith. |