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From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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 14:39:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86sfo891q0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a6agvldj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:44:08 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 55930@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:18:06 +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

?

> We should mention this aspect, and also say what "older versions" are
> not supported by MSYS2, so that people won't be unpleasantly surprised
> after spending their afternoon downloading stuff.

Agreed.

>> @@ -2139,7 +2143,7 @@ MinGW
>>  @cindex msys environment
>>  @cindex subprocesses, mingw and msys
>>  
>> -@uref{http://www.mingw.org/}
>> +@uref{https://mingw.osdn.io/}
>
> The correct URL is https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/

I will change that.

> 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.

Thanks.  Best, Arash





  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-13 12:39 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 [this message]
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

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