From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:50:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83lhom8s9u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbns9d5j.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnpjaipi.fsf@gnu.org> <83a953aebr.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq868zb4.fsf@gnu.org> <87eguefyxh.fsf@arcor.de> <83r3ye8umq.fsf@gnu.org> <877g06fu99.fsf@arcor.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413046279 12622 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 16:51:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:51:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 18:51:14 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Xczsw-0004iE-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:51:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54722 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xczsw-0004Rk-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xczsd-0004RY-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XczsX-0007dN-NR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:42323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XczsX-0007dG-F5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDA00G00GZXO500@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:50:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDA00GVXHGNI990@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:50:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <877g06fu99.fsf@arcor.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100425 Archived-At: > From: David Engster > Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:25:54 +0200 > > Oh, and don't get me started on MsysGit shipping its own MSYS > environment, which is oh-so-slightly incompatible to the one from MSYS > itself, leading to weird errors when you accidentally mix them, which > can easily happen since you usually have both in PATH. I'd love to have > *one* central MSYS which other packages could depend on. Yep. I keep them separate, for that very reason. Which is a bit of a pain when you need to configure and build a package that requires Git as part of its configure/build process...