Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

[Vincent Manis]

On 2008 Mar 06, at 09:08, Ashley Bone wrote:
> I'd suggest combining the paragrapsh on the MinGW/msys builds and  
> just noting that makefiles exist for cmd.exe and msys.
Done.

John Cowan asked what the point of having both flavors. Back when I  
was doing
Windows stuff, I normally built things via bash scripts (just as I do  
today
on OSX). I did use MinGW/MSys (curse their weird capitalization) for  
exactly
that, once or twice. But most of my coworkers were kind of locked into  
Windows,
and trying to explain shell scripts to them would have been very  
stressful
on all of us. So had I been building something for them to use, I  
probably
would have created a batch file for building it, on the grounds that  
they
would be more likely to understand it than a shell script.

So my vote (even though I have no machines at present that need or  
even could
use MinGW) goes to keeping both.

-- v