On Saturday 06 November 2010, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > I'm not sure thats a wise choice. For me as someone who was willing to > bring KDevelop to windows and work on that, mingw was always too slow to > be usable. It was a magnitude slower than msvc2008 (even the first 4.x > releases). So for end-users the compiler doesn't matter, but for people > who'd like to use pre-built packages of the development platform (which > I think many app-devs would want to use as a start to port their app) > the compiler may play quite a bigger role. Having to spend a complete > day just for getting my app built with mingw is not going to attract me > to help with the kde/windows effort.
I won't insist on a particular default. What I care about is that compilers can be released independently. And the compiler I'm willing to help with for a release is MinGW4 32bit. Still, I think app-devs can be expected to make an informed choice to pick something other than the default option. So IMO, as long as anybody does create a MSVC-based releases in this scenario, it will not make any practical difference. And in fact, I think app-devs who care about having a particular compiler are prime candidates for volunteering to help with a release for that compiler. Regards Thomas
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