From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:11:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83czxy7530.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pn2dq3xv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ft39hnk1.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7nppzjy.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838s90hhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh1gircl.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83turofw8r.fsf@gnu.org> <87sg6v76fd.fsf_-_@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24001"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 15:12:00 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l2agq-00068Q-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:12:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52920 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l2agp-0006F2-7b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l2afr-0005jj-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:10:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42170) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l2afr-0004h8-Gg; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:10:59 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1622 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l2afq-0006Ez-9t; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:10:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87sg6v76fd.fsf_-_@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:29:58 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:263237 Archived-At: > From: Phillip Lord > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:29:58 +0000 > > The plan would be during the installation run the newly installed > Emacs. This would download, unpack and configure msys2, as well as > install a variety of related packages (git, find, gzip, hunspell, > aspell, what ever). For those using the zip package of Emacs, they would > achieve the same thing by running a command. Could you please elaborate on how will this work for users? E.g., how about describing the steps a user who installs Emacs should do to install these additions? I don't think I have a clear picture of what you intend to do, and the files you committed are just the starting point, so they don't answer this question. Btw, I don't think I understand why you insist on using 'concat' to generate files names from 2 components: that's what expand-file-name is for, and it does that better. One other not about the code you committed is that modifying PATH from within Emacs is not generally a good idea, it has some subtleties.