From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bzr smart server Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:36:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83sk27oojp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4C6D56DB.7040703@swipnet.se> <4C6D8EC5.7040901@swipnet.se> <4C6E1F0A.7070506@swipnet.se> <837hjlr78p.fsf@gnu.org> <83iq35p5s8.fsf@gnu.org> <83bp8wpf0l.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkwg13kz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83zkwgnfr6.fsf@gnu.org> <87eids0y1m.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83vd74nevg.fsf@gnu.org> <4C700CAE.7020903@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282412113 830 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2010 17:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 21 19:35:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmryK-0007yW-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:35:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmryJ-0006PK-Ms for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46467 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmryC-0006Mv-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmryB-00041p-CE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:41300) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmryB-00041f-4a; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L7I00200JE2FM00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:34:56 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.220.100]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L7I001R1JI7VQ70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:34:56 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4C700CAE.7020903@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128983 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:28:14 +0800 > From: Jason Rumney > > On 21/8/2010 11:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Because it's an incompatible environment. MSYS is a fork of Cygwin, > It is? I was under the impression that MSYS was an extension of MinGW to > give a Posix shell and environment in which to use the MinGW tools. No. MSYS is an environment to _build_ MinGW ports (as opposed to _use_ them). Its creator forked it from Cygwin for reasons I forgot. His recommendation is to use MSYS only for building MinGW ports.