[OT] Re: There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 21.05.2011 00:20, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:ir6p9s$1he8$6 at 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.
> 

Why? MSYS and mingw are available on Windows and mingw is even available
on linux for cross-compiling so it makes sense to use it for building
the Windows version.
As long as the resulting program doesn't have these dependencies it's ok
IMHO.
And if you really care it shouldn't be too hard to make it use another
build-system (so you don't need MSYS) and maybe even another compiler..