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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
Cc: 55930@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:01:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1y0u37f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sfo891q0.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Arash Esbati on Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:39:35 +0200)

> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Cc: 55930@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:39:35 +0200
> 
> > First, I think MinGW64 should nowadays be the main reference, and
> > mingw.org's MinGW just the second choice, specifically for 32-bit
> > builds targeting old Windows versions (which MinGW64 and MSYS2 no
> > longer support).
> 
> Thanks for your comments.  I presume you mean to make this change
> through the entire FAQ, right?  Starting with
> 
>   1.2 Which versions of Windows are supported?
> 
> and not only in
> 
>   11 Other useful ports
> 
> ?

Yes.

> > This is IMO too detailed for no good reason.  We don't need to "sell"
> > MinGW64.  I think we should make it shorter, in the same style as the
> > MinGW/MSYS section.
> 
> I don't have any MinGW64/MSYS2 shares ;-)  I just wanted to cover the
> aspect that many precompiled binaries of programs are available from
> this project.  Maybe I put that note somewhere else.

It's okay to say that many precompiled binaries are available there, I
just don't see a need to affirm that with examples, not in a FAQ.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-13 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-12 18:25 bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows Arash Esbati
2022-06-12 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13  9:18   ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-13 11:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 12:39       ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-13 13:01         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-14  9:23           ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-14 11:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-15  8:42               ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-15 16:39                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-15 19:44                   ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-16  7:20                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 23:46         ` Jim Porter
2022-06-14  9:36           ` Arash Esbati

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