Hi, Lately I have been porting my application to Windows using MingW, and I started using msysGit because I am using git for version control.
I have to say, I really like the idea of msysGit, because it provides an installer which gives the user a nice self-contained development environment with git already included. However, it seems like only the bare necessities for compiling git are included. This is natural, since msysGit is intended for working on git itself. However what I'd *like* to be able to do is tell users that all they need to do is: 1. Install msysGit 2. git-clone the project 3. cd project && ./configure && make My project uses a few external libs and is written in C++. I have managed to get it working under MingW/MSYS, but it requires quite a bit of set-up, even with the git-related steps thankfully taken care of. Mostly this is just downloading an unpacking the MingW and MSYS tarballs into the correct folders, but there are like 6 or 7 of them which is kind of annoying. Anyways, I was thinking it would be nice to have a version of msysGit that includes *everything*, such as g++, autotools, etc. Then msysGit would be like a nicely packaged version of MSYS with everything pre- installed. Since MSYS currently lacks decent package management, something like this might really help projects set up complete, working MingW development environments quickly. What do you think? Is it feasible? I suppose such a thing could be done by simply taking msysGit as it is and including extra stuff in the installer, but I thought I'd throw the idea around on this list a bit before trying to take any initiative on it. Steve
