Re: Installing MinGW and MSYS is such a pain

Who is interested in creating a package manager? Preferably one that will work 
in Windows and on a cross development environment like on Linux.

Command line and GUI.

someone somebody wrote:
> "In a couple of years" are you serious or sarcastic :P
> The scripts you mentioned look nice (I didn't have time to try them)
> If they work well maybe they should be linked from the MinGW website? (At
> least until a full GUI installer is available)
> 
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:46 PM, LRN <lrn1986@...> wrote:
> >  On 01.05.2010 19:37, someone somebody wrote:
> > > Why does installing MinGW and MSYS now has to be such a pain.
> > > Downloading many packages from source forge and unclear instructions on
> > > installing MSYS make this a nightmare.
> > >
> > > I really wish the automated installer will be updated and also an
> >
> > automated
> >
> > > installation for MSYS will be available, but I guess no one bothers to
> > > develop it...
> >
> > mingw-get is on its way. In a couple of years you'll be able to install
> > MinGW and MSys much easier.
> > Meanwhile, you can use setup-mingw.bat (
> >
> > http://mingw-users.1079350.n2.nabble.com/setup-mingw-bat-a-simple-batch-M
> >inGW-installer-td3691215.html ) or setup-mingw.py (
> > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/SettingUpMinGWMSysEnvironment ).
> >
> >
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