I think that people, which download DEVELOPMENT (not stable)
releases not need such "godsends". They really need to save
time and (sometimes) inet traffic.
In addition, the MinGW insallation is very easy.
Just download installer and run it once.
Isn't it?
Alex
Yes. But you will lack our linker.
OTOH, seriously, for any real Win32 development, M$ SDK is the way to go. We supply mingw version because it is a nice out-of-box solution if you just want to try U++ (we obviously cannot redistribute M$ stuff, even if it is free).