[haskell-platform] #154: Windows: Please update shipped MinGW

[haskell-platform]

#154: Windows: Please update shipped MinGW
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 Reporter:  dwagenknecht       |       Owner:  refold
     Type:  defect             |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  major              |   Milestone:        
Component:  Windows installer  |    Keywords:        
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 On Windows the Haskell Plattform comes with MinGW which is an excellent
 choice and makes work with Haskell much more seamless. What realy brakes
 my neck though is that the version shipped is really really old with GCC
 3.x and so on...essentially I always follow the qtHaskell hack and
 overwrite the MinGW folder with the one shipped with Qt SDK.

 If there are reasons to stick to an old & slow gcc, then please make the
 addition of MinGW to the PATH an optional thing (default of course
 on/checked so that novice users get a good experience) so C/C++ developers
 are not suddenly confronted with an inconsistent buildchain.

 Thanks and keep up the excellent work!

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/154>
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