From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: using gnus on windows Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:41:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87r4qhdqt9.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87wr0b7cd6.fsf@gmail.com> <87wr09refx.fsf@gnus.org> <87hard20h1.fsf@gmail.com> <5046920B.80809@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346820118 6011 80.91.229.3 (5 Sep 2012 04:41:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 04:41:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Scholtes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 06:42:00 2012 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 1T97R9-0007tl-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:41:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T97R6-0007CJ-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T97R4-0007CD-5P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:41:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T97R0-0004p6-80 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:61844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T97Qz-0004mr-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: by wgbdt14 with SMTP id dt14so81452wgb.30 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:41:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=7iP5jGkYoxNdPejCN4B/GrbXNRy6r6qr7UzFeLQAglw=; b=iGD6HJtCJw7Su7VJ6qnRJYpnXIgRRQ+9/kuipZXB4Sj9mH8AtlXWPzfp1gjU41EQ67 zRm9LSr4JM1yGx4+xEr0uw9lytjzgDIHXjL47VRxdPlwb/pFH9vMUeCNYdoJ+CjCr0g7 R/P7f6TNCaYKAv+X7cQmD/CkqT2bsr0EqNduXZ42sasaSpnI7VwXZzB5mHF3lP13WAvB gIs0RGxrh0t/n7QIc8fjU2skPeITh/6sbk4Y3ye0DiZX3pbT6iSN9ZQpg9Hno/c0ZeBw GO6TGPBK7mHptjPJLZVwk5YiHAA1dtaPSscT8NGrMDvzrcdWJhg7cbzg4MxQbyAPUCXS JDGQ== Original-Received: by 10.216.195.212 with SMTP id p62mr12496734wen.217.1346820108945; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from dell-14z (lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net. [78.243.104.167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r9sm1174395wia.2.2012.09.04.21.41.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:41:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5046920B.80809@gmail.com> (Christoph Scholtes's message of "Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:43:07 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 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:153034 Archived-At: Christoph Scholtes writes: > On 9/4/2012 10:53 AM, Thierry Volpiatto wrote: >> This is not documented, we even don't know if the windows binaries are >> compiled with this feature, so it is hard to use Gnus on windows without >> spending hours of googling and reading code to figure out what to do. > > From the release announcement for the (more or less) weekly binaries: > > The binaries were built using the following libraries: > giflib-4.1.4-1 > gnutls-3.0.9 <---------------- > jpeg-6b-4 > libXpm-3.5.8 > libpng-1.4.3-1 > tiff-3.8.2-1 > zlib-1.2.5-2 > libxml2-2.7.8 > libiconv-1.13.1-1 > > FWIW, I use gnus on Windows with the compiled in version of gnutls > (Eli's version) and Gmail/IMAP without problems. > > Do you still have problems? After two days playing with windows7 on my new laptop, I give up, and install a GNU/linux box as I always did. I never been able to use Gnus on windows7 (Among other things that do not work properly). -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997