On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Laurent Hoeltgen hoeltgman@gmail.com wrote:
No, shipping a compiler with Geany wouldn't make sense. Geany is general purpose editor. You can use it for many things. HTML, Ruby, gnu octave, gnuplot or even just plain text. None of these require a compiler.
That's true. But since Windoze don't always use /usr/bin, the PATH setting is always annoying and challenging for noobs. I got your point though, a MinGW bundled version, if any, may not become "official".
Also, in my opinion, we should leave the choice of the compiler to the user. If somebody wants to use a different compiler, he shouldn't have to install one that comes with his favourite text editor.
Well, the choice of complier is possible but not "very easy" in Geany, I guess. Because the default build command settings of C/C++ is for GCC. So if one have GCC installed (and PATH correctly added in Windoze), then C/C++ works out-of-the-box. Or if one want to use another compiler, she has to figure out the compiler's command syntax. ( C::B is much easier since configuration of many compilers is built-in. )