From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited) Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:34:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874l53g0yk.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83y32erdlt.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="29525"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" 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 Thu Jun 06 16:34:28 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtTG-0007a5-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:34:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtTF-0000rR-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtT6-0000rL-7K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtT5-0000i9-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60306 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtT4-0000gx-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hYtT2-0007JE-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:34:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:QVrxeWT2Cc4T8dGRm+ZhvPIMspo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:237284 Archived-At: > Beware: you are on a slippery slope. What about Diff, what about > 'man', what about bzip2 and lzip and xz? And if you provide a speller > (I suggest Hunspell, btw, not aspell), then what about dictionaries? > Etc. etc. Agreed. What might make sense is to catch the error signaled when an executable is not found and turn it into a clear message pointing the user to simple instructions for how to install those tools via MSYS2 (or whichever other way). Stefan