Anything to reduce mingw fragmentation would be good for new users. For example, see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24581842/mingw-w64-vs-tdm-gcc-vs-othes-minor-distros-e-g-mingw-distro-nuwen-net 2015-05-29 7:39 GMT+03:00 Prasanna V. Loganathar <p...@prasannavl.com>: > Hi, > > I had been using the builds as a part of MSYS2 for a while now, and I > believe this is the most robust and easiest way to install mingw-w64. Also, > due to the inherent nature of the system, it also provides the most > up-to-date builds on par with the Linux builds. > > The build I see on winbuilds is actually older than the one on MSYS2. I’m > just wondering if it would be in the best interests of the entire community > that MSYS2 be promoted as the preferred build from the website instead of > winbuilds. While win-builds seem to provide a GUI and switchable toolchain, > MSYS2 just feels a lot more robust with, especially pacman. Pacman > integration at its crux, seems to be the most brilliant package management > strategy for windows, so far. > > > > By the looks of the websites, I believe I can assume that the maintainers > of winbuilds and mingw-w64 are the same or perhaps at the least linked. But > I would very much like to think that it would be better to focus the > efforts on one if so, and perhaps may be even implement winbuilds over > msys2’s excellent convergence work. But until then, I think it may make a > lot more sense to converge with MSYS2 for official sources, rather than use > the winbuilds system. Windows GCC (MinGW) builds of libraries have > historically been a pain, because of the numerous different possible > configuration the default build could have had, and due to the nature of > the various sources, and none to be so-called “official” (or at-least a > de-facto standard). Having winbuilds, and MSYS2 could again promote such > problems, while converging them could very easily become the de-facto > standard. > > > > I’d like to hear what the maintainers’ thought are on these. > > > > Regards, > > Prasanna V. Loganathar > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > >
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