From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows snapshot builds Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 23:33:23 -0500 Message-ID: <861sfn3cks.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <878tako2vn.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87o9j9qif0.fsf@gmx.us> <87muyq4p38.fsf@russet.org.uk> <871sfxg4gt.fsf@gmx.us> <87d0z8ttey.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523334788 5266 195.159.176.226 (10 Apr 2018 04:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:33:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 10 06:33:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5kxr-0001Bt-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:33:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37363 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5kzv-0001Ry-Ew for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36048) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5kyG-0001K2-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:33:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5kyD-0006JH-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp105.iad3b.emailsrvr.com ([146.20.161.105]:43821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5kyD-0006Ig-J6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:33:25 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp22.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp22.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id F3AE560069 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:33:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Auth-ID: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: by smtp22.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: board-president-AT-tomahawk-creek-hoa.com) with ESMTPSA id BF79660068 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:33:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender-Id: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: from Takver4 (76-218-37-33.lightspeed.kscymo.sbcglobal.net [76.218.37.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:25 (trex/5.7.12); Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:33:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:19:53 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 146.20.161.105 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224488 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> If I could, I would use MSYS2 to manage programs on my work-issued Windows >>> PC. I am not sure the admins have experience with GNU/Linux systems in >>> particular and UNIX in general, and as such are reluctant to install >>> MSYS2. > > Maybe we could have an emacs-installer package which includes an msys2 > system from which you can install further tools? msys2 already has an Emacs package, so it would be better to point this out to people. People who would be willing to use mays2 to add packages would probably be happier using the msys Emacs package in the first place. On the other hand, including msys2 in an Emacs installer might be a good way to introduce people to msys2. Depends on which is more popular/well known. -- -- Stephe