Re: [Chicken-users] testing release candidate for 4.0.0

[felix winkelmann]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> felix winkelmann scripsit:
>
>> - mingw-msys: you have mingw + msys
>> - mingw: you *DON'T* have msys, just cmd.exe and bare bones mingw
>
> I have never understood why we have both these builds, when it seems that
> mingw would suffice.  It just means more documentation, more support, more
> stuff to convert at each release.

mingw is a reasonable platform to develop on, if you want absolutely
bare-bones support for chicken and are not interested in GNU tools.
It's a build for Windows that only needs gcc and make.

mingw-msys is for people who need basic GNU tools and sh (that would
be me, for example).


cheers,
felix