On Tue, Feb 25, 2014, Adrien Nader wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014, Baruch Burstein wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > On the Sourceforge page for mingw64 ( > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/) the is a download button. On > > Sourceforge, this "default" download is usually reserved for the most > > common download, the file(/archive) that most people looking to use this > > software are going to want. For mingw64 I would expect it to be the x86-x86 > > compiler suite. Instead, it is a 7 MB file (named > > mingw-w64-v3.1.0.tar.bz2). When I opened it I couldn't even figure out what > > it is. Why/when/who would need this file? What is it? And why is it the > > "default" download? > > This is the sources of mingw-w64 itself. > > A toolchain is binaries made from other projects too (GCC + binutils + > mingw-w64).
Also, I'd say the usual and expected "entrypoint" would be the _website_ download page, not the SF one. -- Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
