Re: [Msys2-users] wiki pages (was mingw64 python-config (2.7 & 3.4)

[Greg J. <gv...@gm...>]

Guys,
   The wiki pages give one a start at installation, and when combined with
pacman tips,
some of the upkeep of the installation.  But the overall structure/strategy
is nowhere explained very well.  I've been working with mingw, cygwin,
msys2 now for almost a year; most of what I know has come from viewing the
installed files and collected tidbits from maillist archives.

When an explanation is provided as here in maillist it is (appropriately)
terse and usually full of assumptions and jargon shortcuts.  If they were
to be unpacked and laid out in a regular composition, we'd have a few more
wiki pages in addition to the installation instructions.

A major class of mingw users are unix/linux-aware folk who are nevertheless
forced to use a windows platform, and so are familiar with all of the
resultant trappings that msys provides.   Howevere, a possibly much larger
audience is the linux-curious, those owning powerful windows machines
(needed to host the good games) but open to hosting, at least
experimentally, an msys system.

  Well I'm sure this is all familiar territory so I'll just halt my
treatise here.
----8<----
  Some time earlier Corinna of Cygwin fame asked what was the point of
msys2 when there is cygwin64.  I'm still uncertain of that myself.
If one exports PATH=/c/msys64/mingw64/bin:$PATH in cygwin64 how is that
different from using MINGW-64 shell in MSYS2?
Greg

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Ray Donnelly <min...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:06 PM, michel agoyan <mic...@fr...>
> wrote:
>
> Please read the wiki. https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/
>
>