MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows Files

mingw-get-inst is a simple InnoSetup GUI installer that (indirectly) installs
MinGW and MSYS.  It actually only installs the new `mingw-get' executable and
its support files---and then invokes that program to handle the actual
installation.

During the GUI phase of the installation, you may select which elements you
wish to install, from the following list:

   MinGW GCC 4.5.1
      C Compiler             always installed
      C++ Compiler           optional
      Fortran Compiler       optional
      Ada Compiler           optional
      ObjC Compiler          optional
   MSYS Basic                optional
   MinGW Developer Toolkit   optional
   MSYS System Builder       optional

After the GUI phase of the installation is complete, mingw-get will be
invoked to download and install all of the selected components.

Once installation is complete, you can update to any available newer version
of the available components, or add additional components, by performing the
following steps:

   cd C:\MinGW\bin (or whereever mingw-get.exe is located)
   mingw-get update
   mingw-get install <... package names ...>

The 'update' command updates the local copy of the package information
database.  This version of mingw-get-inst ships with a snapshot of that
database, from 2010 Sep 09. (During the GUI phase of the installation, you
will be given the option of automatically updating the database to the latest
version, or using the pre-packaged snapshot).

If there are any issues with this installer or with mingw-get, please report
problems to
   mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net
After triage, you may be asked to open an official bug report by following the
instructions here:
   http://www.mingw.org/reporting_bugs


Changes
==========
20101030:
	* Ship with mingw-get-0.1-alpha-5; this provides a more robust
	  solution to the "mingw-get deleted itself" problem, together
	  with a workaround to avoid a race condition in this installer
	  itself.

20100909:
	* Ship with mingw-get-0.1-alpha-4, which fixes the "mingw-get deleted
	  itself" problem and adds a --help option.
	* Now also (optionally) install the MinGW Developer Toolkit and/or
	  MSYS System Builder meta package collections.
	* No longer requires Admin privileges
	* Optionally run 'mingw-get update' to download the most recent set of
	  package metadata before performing the installation.

20100831:
	* Initial release


Background
==========
mingw-get is the actual MinGW installer. It supports multiple installation
locations on a single computer, multiple repositories and handles dependency
relationships between elements.  However, it is still a work in progress---and
many potential users are intimidated by it, because it is a command line
application and requires some configuration file editing before it can be used.

mingw-get is structured as a library that contains all of the core
implementation logic, and a command-line interface (CLI) front end executable.
Eventually, that CLI application will be superseded by a GUI front end---once
the development of the back end implementation logic and library is complete.
However, the CLI mingw-get is usuable today, for simple installations.

mingw-get-inst is NOT the GUI version of mingw-get. Rather, it is a quick and
dirty InnoSetup wrapper that installs the CUI mingw-get, modifies the
configuration files as needed automatically, and invokes mingw-get with the
appropriate arguments to handle the actual installation.  We expect that
mingw-get-inst will be obsoleted once the GUI version of mingw-get is released,
but that may be some time from now.