On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:17 AM, niXman <i.nix...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/9/23 Kai Tietz:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > As you may have noticed, we are already providing builds from
> > mingw-builds on our download page. both mingw-builds and mingw-w64 will
> > be joining ventures together. Both Alexey and niXman will both ensure
> > that pre-built toolchains have regular maintenance and releases. This was
> > necessary after Ruben announced his plans to retire from providing his
> > awesome pre-built toolchains.
> >
> > As personal toolchain releases are important to our users, and to avoid
> > misunderstanding, responsibility for user support of these toolchains
> > will be equally shared between all toolchain providers.
> >
> > Our recommendation on using the mingw-builds variant is geared towards
> > providing new users an easy starting point rather than to single out
> > other providers. We encourage more developers and users to join in as
> > regular toolchain providers via our "personal build" section.
> >
> > We are happy that we were able to join forces with mingw-builds, and
> > fill by this
> > a gap for our users in providing toolchains they need.
> >
> > We hope you give Alexey and niXman a warm welcome and a chance to grow
> > into their new positions!
>
> Thank you, Kai!
>
>
> At present I and Alexey provide builds as "Personal builds", that in
> fact is not our goal. Our goal is to provide "Official builds". To do
> this, we need the help of mingw-w64 users, in the form of feedback. I
> am asking all of you to try out our builds and report the result.
>
> The nearest plans include the following objects:
> 1. To complete the porting of mingw-builds scripts for the possibility
> to use it with osx/nix platforms.
> 2. To create an universal online installer of the precompiled
> toolchains for win/osx/nix.
> 3. To create a collection of precompiled OpenSource libraries for
> C/C++ programming languages.
>
>
Fabulous.
Kai: nicely done...thanks for avoiding terseness and providing enough
verbiage to help set expectations and tone.
Feedback in no particular priority:
1) Immediately begin placing the builds in an "Official Builds" dir that is
a sibling to the current "Personal Builds" dir.
2) Maintain the mingw-builds build scripts in a public git repo similar to
Reuben (does not have to be on GH). Perhaps this is already done today and
I've been too lazy to find anything but the `mingw-builds-3.0.0.zip`
download.
3) An installer is fantastic, but please continue to ensure the components
are usable and downloadable without the installer. This is important for
those of us who stitch together custom toolchains by scripting the
download/extraction of your base (binary) components.
4) Start a separate thread that lists specific areas (small and large)
where you guys could use community help in building and maintaining the
official mingw-w64 builds.
Will official mingw-w64 builds be available only for 4.8.1+, or will a
limited number of earlier versions also be supported? For me, I currently
only care about 4.7.x and 4.8.1+
In addition to Alexey and niXman, a big "Thank You" to all mingw-w64
contributors who make this effort of providing usable binary toolchains
possible.
Jon
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