[question] mingw_installer best practice?

[davidtazy]

should build_requirement of mingw_installer should be defined in profile or in component recipe?

for example, openssl-recipe in conan-center_index, mingw_installer is no in recipe icu in bincrafters , mingw_installer is defined in recipe

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[lasote]

It is a good question. I would say, in general, the recipes shouldn't force something like a compiler unless its usage is very very unusual, like OpenSSL is (or was) doing with NASM in Windows. I prefer the profiles to declare the environment.