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Subject: Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:53:42 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Maybe streamlining the MSYS way to install Emacs is the easiest/best way
> to solve this problem?

Depends on what you mean by that (and what you mean when you say
"MSYS").  In general, quite a few useful programs don't have native
Windows ports in MSYS2 repository, so you will get MSYS ports instead,
and that will cause subtle problems, similar to what happens when one
mixes Cygwin programs with a native w32 Emacs.