Hi everyone,
I'd like to thank the MSYS2 devs for their excellent work on getting this
quick and dirty POSIX shell/development environment working. Although I
never use it anymore, it had its uses to me at one point and can appreciate
the availability of an up to date version.
Lately, though, I've bee surprised by the number of things people want to
stuff into MSYS2. I alwas ahd the impression MSYS was a minimal system
which contains a bunch of POSIX shell tools to accomodate configure scripts
and UNIX-y makefiles.
There have been requests for things like X, CMake and other things that in
my eyes make absolutely no sense to be even remotely related to MSYS. If
you need a full POSIX OS-emulating environment, use Cygwin. If you need a
shell, use MSYS. W.r.t. CMake: there is no use for there to be an MSYS port
of this for two reasons: CMake works fine as a pure Win32 app, and it can
generate MSYS makefiles.
I have forgotten other examples, but please, don't just build stuff for
MSYS because you can. That's just a waste of time and ridiculous.
Also: I implore you to explore (ha, two -plores in one sentence) the use of
the existing AUR PKGBUILDs for MinGW-w64 package creation. It makes
absolutely no sense to spread efforts if you want a complete package
management system. They are perfectly usable, all you need to do is change
your toolchains' paths to more sensible ([/usr]/[x86_64|i686]-w64-mingw32
install prefix) defaults to match the Linux setup. This allows you to use
the existing PKGBUILDs *unmodified*, which is a huge advantage!
Anyways, just a Friday afternoon rant I hope will be taken into serious
consideration.
Cheers,
Ruben
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