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From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 55930@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:36:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <865yl3mvrg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0547b62d-32f5-c40e-e062-7666b8a493b9@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:46:35 -0700")

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> On the subject pointing people to precompiled MS Windows binaries of
> useful GNU tools, one really easy way for users is to add C:\Program
> Files\Git\usr\bin to their PATH (or wherever Git was installed). On MS
> Windows, Git comes with quite a few of the most-common commands (I
> think from MSYS2, actually), and I'd imagine that many Emacs users
> also have Git installed.
>
> I'm not sure this is worth putting in the FAQ, but I thought I'd
> mention it just in case.

Thanks for your comment.  I'm not sure if it's worth either.  But my
recommendation would be to drop this and let people install the original
MinGW64/MSYS2 distribution if they want the tools besides Git.  I mean,
why installing Git when you want to use bash only?

Best, Arash





      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-14  9:36 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
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 [this message]

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