From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows snapshot builds Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:19:53 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1523279896 13922 195.159.176.226 (9 Apr 2018 13:18:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 13:18:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 15:18:12 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 1f5WgV-0003VX-At for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:18:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38109 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5Wib-0002kG-5Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5WiO-0002dd-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5WiJ-0000G5-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49155 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f5WiJ-0000Fe-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 09:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f5WgB-00034o-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:17:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzJTKCMzfmohvZUeXo8xws+yJOI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:224458 Archived-At: >> 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? Stefan