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From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:11:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kjai82d.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sg6ua2m8.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2021 04:36:15 -0800")

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Following on from this discussion, I have had a thought about a better
>> way of producing a more function windows download and have come up with
>> this idea, which is just to install msys inside the Emacs install
>> directory.
>
> Works for me, as long as it detects my current msys install and does not
> modify it without asking my permission.

I have tested this; you can have two msys installations on a machine and
they just ignore each other. In practice, someone who already has an
msys installation wouldn't want this, although there is no reason why
any technology that we put in place for managing an internal msys
shouldn't also work for a preinstalled one.

For example, there might be a command "install recommended packages"
which would just update your local msys an add those packages that work
with Emacs. Likewise, if there is an expectation that Emacs will be used
in this way, we might modify Emacs to work "properly"; for example, M-x
find tends to break on Windows because it finds the wrong "find"
command.

Phil



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-21 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-09 19:57 [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted Phillip Lord
2021-01-09 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-09 21:31   ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-10  8:49     ` Arash Esbati
2021-01-10 15:19       ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-10 16:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 18:23       ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-10 19:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 19:20           ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-10 19:37             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 20:52           ` `gzip` dependency (was: [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted) Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11  3:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-11 10:00               ` `gzip` dependency Phillip Lord
2021-01-11 15:22                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-11 14:59               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-11 15:15                 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-11 15:46                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-20 19:29             ` [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package Phillip Lord
2021-01-21 12:36               ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-21 16:11                 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2021-01-21 18:22                 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-21 18:44                   ` phillip.lord
2021-01-23  2:51                     ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-21 18:53                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-21 14:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-21 16:44                 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-21 20:17                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-21 21:37                     ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-22  7:24                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-22 16:14                         ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-22 17:03                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 22:13                             ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-24 22:56                               ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-24 23:34                                 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-25  0:12                                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-25 15:24                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 19:49                                     ` chad
2021-01-25 19:57                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 20:42                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-25 22:13                                         ` chad
2021-01-25 22:28                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-26  3:26                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 15:20                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 20:01                                 ` Richard Copley
2021-01-25 21:17                                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-26  3:29                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26  5:43                                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-26  6:56                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26  7:37                                           ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-26  9:57                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 15:58                                               ` martin rudalics
2021-01-27 14:55                                             ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 18:36                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 16:35                                   ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-26 10:43                                 ` Phillip Lord
2021-04-03 11:34               ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-04-20  9:25                 ` Phillip Lord
2021-04-20 14:38                   ` Wayne Harris via Emacs development discussions.
2021-04-21 15:51                     ` Phillip Lord
2021-04-21 17:11                       ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-04-24 11:46                       ` Wayne Harris via Emacs development discussions.
2021-04-26 13:27                         ` Phillip Lord
2021-04-21 17:19                     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-04-21 23:03                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-04-22 19:44                         ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-04-22 14:55                       ` Wayne Harris via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-11  9:59           ` [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted Phillip Lord
2021-01-11 15:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-11 18:29               ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-09 21:36   ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-01-10 16:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 18:34       ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-09 21:51   ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-10  3:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 15:09     ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-10 19:06       ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-11  9:47         ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-11 11:01           ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-11 16:29             ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-11 17:21               ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-01-10 15:14   ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-10 17:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-09 20:47 ` Alan Third
2021-01-09 21:33   ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-10  0:04     ` Alan Third
2021-01-10  3:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-10 15:43 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-12  6:01   ` Corwin Brust
2021-01-12  9:48     ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-12 10:27       ` Corwin Brust

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