Re: is a new MSYS DTK planned ?

Vincent Torri <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:34:18 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys
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On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Not as such, no. All of the components of a new DTK are already
> available from the MinGW download site as separate packages, but we are
> moving away from such "monolithic" mega-packages like the old MSYS DTK.

The problem is that the 'Files' on SF is a real mess. I've been using 
MSYS/MinGWfor several years and i am still lost with all those packages. 
There are several packages with the same names (autoconf, automake, 
etc... within 'msys' or 'mingw' in their names), sometimes with the same 
version (bzip2). A newcomer would be certainly a lot more lost than me.

Such monolithic approach has his drawbacks, but it has an advantage: it's 
easy for users to install the components they want.

> Eventually a new installer program will be available that will enable
> you to easily download and install of these smaller components
> (currently, your only recourse is a painful manual process).

Exactly. It's a pain.

Vincent Torri

> The new installer may (or may not) have a "MSYS DTK" ``profile'' that
> would, with one click, install all of the components of the original
> DTK. Dunno.
>
> --
> Chuck
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