> >> For one, Strawberry gives you the compiler as part of the > >> installation. You don't have to go find MinGW, figure out which > >> packages you need, and so on. It's compiler-enabled right away. > > > > I consider this is a bad feature, that will help lazy > programmer in a > > short run but its better to bother about C compiler > carefully and to not > > have uncontrollable number of MinGW everywhere.
..... > I think it's a good thing to be offering the C compiler in > the download. I > think it would be even better if that download included the > g77 compiler, > and if there was an option to *not* install MinGW (for those > who already > have it). One of the wrong things with this approach is installer itself (MSI and installshield crap), which is largerly broken on WinXXXX systems, and there are many people (including me) avoiding it and prefering ZIP over MSI. But ever better is PAR where no installation needed :) (joking) Other wrong thing is oversized bundle, which could have some of its components not synchronously updated (I mean you could prefer more recent MinGW but you stuck with this one shipped with perl) On all other points we seemingly agree :) BR, Vadim.
