From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Anyone building Emacs trunk with MinGW w64 (32 bits) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:17:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87boa6b0fc.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87zjxumbjf.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83vc8f1t0x.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqsvcso0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83fvzj1atq.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjxqzn2y.fsf@gnu.org> <87obe6ben5.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r4j2z7nw.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvzibarp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83li9az43l.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364314685 942 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2013 16:18:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:18:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 26 17:18:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWZv-00071y-T0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:18:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWZX-0003yX-VS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWZU-0003we-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:18:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWZS-0006Is-QA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWZS-0006If-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKWZl-0006QT-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:18:17 +0100 Original-Received: from 87.red-88-15-56.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([88.15.56.87]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:18:17 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 87.red-88-15-56.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:18:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.red-88-15-56.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NTQP9tEmn2TQh1pORWenSKLAUfA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158225 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Ugh! I strive to keep my machines Cygwin and MSYS-free (being MSYSGit >> the only allowed trespasser, for obvious reasons.) > > If you have MSYSGit installed, then resisting MSYS is kinda pointless, > don't you think? Because you already have most of MSYS, and then > some. AFAIK, MSYSGit lacks key components for running configure scripts. > "Developer's convenience" my foot. From my perspective, what's at > stake is the ability of keeping a viable Windows port alive! Yes, that's my concern too. > How many > contributors to Emacs even understand the Windows build procedure well > enough to develop and maintain it? Asking users who build their own > Emacs on Windows to install MSYS is a small price for making sure the > Windows port will be able to keep up with the Posix build procedure > for free. For people who don't want to pay that price, there will > always be binary distributions. The POSIX build will require Windows-specific tweaks from time to time, which require knowledge about the POSIX build *and* about Windows. That's not much better than now.