From: ara.t.howard@... Date: 2006-07-22T00:36:01+09:00 Subject: Re: One-Click Installer: MinGW? or VC2005? On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Austin Ziegler wrote: > On 7/18/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote: >> the caveat, however, is whether mingw can cut the mustard. i've not heard >> any >> reason why it couldn't - but i am simply not experience enough on windoze >> to >> know for sure. > > It can't. It uses an older Win32 API and still doesn't use the most > recent GCC and appears to be very slow on updating. MinGW appears to > compile significantly slower code than VC++ does, as well. can you show some numbers? -a -- suffering increases your inner strength. also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear. - h.h. the 14th dali lama