On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Laurent Hoeltgen <[email protected]> wrote: > No, shipping a compiler with Geany wouldn't make sense. Geany is general > purpose editor. You can use it for many things. HTML, Ruby, gnu octave, > gnuplot or even just plain text. None of these require a compiler. That's true. But since Windoze don't always use /usr/bin, the PATH setting is always annoying and challenging for noobs. I got your point though, a MinGW bundled version, if any, may not become "official".
> Also, in my opinion, we should leave the choice of the compiler to the user. > If somebody wants to use a different compiler, he shouldn't have to > install one that comes with his favourite text editor. Well, the choice of complier is possible but not "very easy" in Geany, I guess. Because the default build command settings of C/C++ is for GCC. So if one have GCC installed (and PATH correctly added in Windoze), then C/C++ works out-of-the-box. Or if one want to use another compiler, she has to figure out the compiler's command syntax. ( C::B is much easier since configuration of many compilers is built-in. ) _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
