>Point taken, but note binary distributors would also not want to >alienate the huge numbers of MinGW users as well. MinGW-4.7.2 has >been averaging 20,000 downloads of its core package per month for the >7 months since its release. And MinGW-4.6.2 has had 800 thousand (!) >downloads of its core package since its release. (You can find these >numbers yourself by exploring >http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/gcc/Version4/. >You will actually find much larger numbers there at first blush, but >if you dig for the download numbers of just the core package in each >case you will find what I have stated above.) Obviously download numbers for Microsoft products are not so easy to come by. However download.com has Visual Studio Professional 2010 listed with 700,000 downloads. I don't know how this compares to the free Express version, plus this version has been superceded by the 2012 version for about 9 months and presumably this is only for the downloads via download.com itself and excludes downloads from the Microsoft site. Although, given PLPlot's target audience, perhaps they will tend more towards MinGW. So there are many caveats, but in terms of order of magnitude the two toolchains seem to have similar usage. Anyway I don't want to turn this into a huge discussion now as you say Alan. Just making the point that it is something that should be worried about if/when things get that far. Phil
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