Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed.. Mingw install?

[Bob McIsaac]

Sergey Khorev wrote:

> Hello Bob McIsaac 
>
> BM> I tried MinGw and found it wasn't "the simplest thing that could
> BM> possibly work" (as Ward Cunningham might say).  That is the fate
> BM> of Unix tools on the Windows platform... compromises, work arounds,
> BM> and special cases are inevitable resulting in some obfuscation.
> BM> 
> BM> On the other hand, I briefly tried http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html.
> BM> It was a simple install which contained the essentials of Mingw. But I
> BM> don't know enough to recommend that tool at this time.
>
> Are we talking about the MinGW compiler or IDE?
>
>  
It is easy to install an IDE that includes MinGw but difficult, in my
view to install, the MinGw toolchain on it's own because it is not
a cohesive package. 

What we have here is distribution of complexity.  Someone has to
deal with it and I admire and thank those who contribute these tools.
But why not make the user experience as simple as possible for the
ultimate benefit of all?