Rust 0.9 released
Wasn't this release supposed to finally offer a Windows package which works out-of-the-box?<p>I just tried it. Only got an error message about a missing GCC component. Seriously, a ~90MB download and that still does not include all the GCC dependencies?<p>We still have to somehow manually setup a version of MinGW compatible with this particular build? Who is in charge of the Windows port? A Linux user who cross-compiles from an Arch box? No way a Windows user would think that Windows package is acceptable.<p>I mean, I am not paying anything for it so it is not that I think I have the right to demand better packages but you are losing out on a massive amount of feedback from the Windows world by only offering such downloads.<p>You are largely limiting yourself to determined people who are already familiar with MinGW-based C/C++ development on Windows (that is a <i>small</i> subset of Windows devs). What about people coming from - say C#? You expect them to fiddle with a MinGW setup just to build "Hello World"?<p>Sorry, but for me this experiment with Rust ended just like the 0.8 one. Downloaded Windows installer, ran Windows installer, tried to compile Hello World, got error message about missing components, uninstall, delete.