"Daniel Gibson" <metalcae...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ir6p9s$1he8$6...@digitalmars.com... > Am 20.05.2011 23:55, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: >> >> Yea, and that's exactly the sort of thing I meant about corporations >> playing >> inexcusable Windows favoritism. But what I was talking about is just >> ordinary (knowledgeable) users and OSS contributors who actually know >> what >> they're doing. From what I've seen, there are a lot on Linux that >> consider >> shoddy msys/mingw/cygwin "ports" to be acceptable, but not so many Linux >> users who consider shoddy Windows->Linux ports acceptable. >> > > Isn't mingw just a port of GCC, GDB etc?
*shrug* All I know is that I've dealt with stuff that required it before and it was always a royal PITA. > I don't think using it to build > software (even together with MSYS when it's just used for configure etc > and is not needed to run the program itself) is bad. > It's bad if the program is open source and it's required to build the program.