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skeeto / w64devkit

Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows
The Unlicense
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pacman? #5

Closed nerdralph closed 3 years ago

nerdralph commented 3 years ago

I'm not sure if it fits with your design goals or not, but have you considered including pacman? I think that would make it a lot easier to add other tools.

skeeto commented 3 years ago

A primary goal of w64devkit is support for fully offline development, an area I feel has been neglected. An internet connected package manager that depends on external services doesn't fit with this goal. That domain is already well-covered by MSYS2, so I'll leave it to them.

Besides, I have a rustic vision of a team choosing w64devkit as the toolchain for their project. It will never change nor surprise them with "updates", and everything they need is packed away in a .zip that they can archive alongside their project. Unlike a lot of software, they would never lose the ability to compile from source. Introducing a package manager undermines this idea and creates the temptation to introduce unnecessary dependencies.

nerdralph commented 3 years ago

OK, thanks for the explanation. I was looking for an easy way to add clang/llvm.