Include Mingw in default install
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:45 am
It would be great if SSH, CVS, mingw etc would be included in the default
install, so ReactOS could be used seriously for selfhosting as soon as
the network side is stable.
Update:
Reading the replies below, I see a pattern. What it comes down to, I think
is should we go a BSD-ish way or a Linux way?
BSD develop a complete system and release everything in concert.
Linux is a kernel only, other do the bundling.
I believe ReactOS has much to gain from going the BSD way rather than
the Linux way. Why? Because much of Win32 is so convoluted and big,
the linux between what's the kernel and what's glibc and apps is not as
clear cut as in the Linux case.
On the other hand I can see and argument for Linux development model
too: Wine and Mingw fills the role of Free Software Foundation with their compiler, libc and user space tools. Reactos do the kernel part.
Third parties do the bundling into a distribution.
I guess I just greatly miss the ReactOS dist a Windows-centric
developer could download and just start hacking on, without knowing
any Linux.
I believe Linux kernel development picked up speed when there
first was a dist availible. (Yggdrasil or Slackware or something, I don't know.)
install, so ReactOS could be used seriously for selfhosting as soon as
the network side is stable.
Update:
Reading the replies below, I see a pattern. What it comes down to, I think
is should we go a BSD-ish way or a Linux way?
BSD develop a complete system and release everything in concert.
Linux is a kernel only, other do the bundling.
I believe ReactOS has much to gain from going the BSD way rather than
the Linux way. Why? Because much of Win32 is so convoluted and big,
the linux between what's the kernel and what's glibc and apps is not as
clear cut as in the Linux case.
On the other hand I can see and argument for Linux development model
too: Wine and Mingw fills the role of Free Software Foundation with their compiler, libc and user space tools. Reactos do the kernel part.
Third parties do the bundling into a distribution.
I guess I just greatly miss the ReactOS dist a Windows-centric
developer could download and just start hacking on, without knowing
any Linux.
I believe Linux kernel development picked up speed when there
first was a dist availible. (Yggdrasil or Slackware or something, I don't know.)