From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-command causes problems with absolute/relative paths in TAGS Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:12:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83mxa0oofm.fsf@gnu.org> References: "2 Jan 2012 10:26:08 -0800" <20120102223315.3E60F1810C9@neo.msri.org> <408087A3D7BE475B884C0F93CE2298C7@us.oracle.com> <AA798C0D220E44E5B798734A70C4CF93@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> <83sjjtnkcd.fsf@gnu.org> <B72CE81634984D288BA62E4C61D83875@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325862897 27436 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2012 15:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 15:14:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 16:14:53 2012 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1RjBVM-0000CO-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:14:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>) id 1RjBVM-0008FG-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:14:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1RjBVG-0008EG-Um for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:14:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1RjBVG-0007dq-1n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:35452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <eliz@gnu.org>) id 1RjBVF-0007dk-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LXD00J00U7ASV00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:14:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.16.185]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LXD00J5UUBRSP10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:14:16 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <B72CE81634984D288BA62E4C61D83875@EUROPE.ROOT.PRI> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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 <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=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:83373 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/83373> > From: "David Chappaz" <david.chappaz@free.fr> > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:04:57 -0000 > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ > > > > I did that port because the one on GnuWin32 is abysmally slow, on any > > drive, not just network ones. > > Wow that really makes a massive difference !! > > I am not asking for the details, as I'm unlikely to understand, but... how > come the GnuWin32 port hasn't been updated or fixed ? I don't know; I cannot speak for the GnuWin32 project. The fact is, many ports there are outdated and some are outright broken. I did offer them my once port of GNU ID Utils (another package whose GnuWin32 is hopelessly broken), and even got an agreement and uploaded the zip archives where they told me to. But months passed and nothing happened, so I decided to start my own project on SourceForge, and you can find ID Utils there as well (and much more). > Not only is your port much faster, it also doesn't completely fall apart > when encountering symbolic links on a unix network drive (which of course > can't be resolved) Yes, and xargs doesn't fail, and locate actually works, etc. etc. Whoever did the GnuWin32 port probably didn't test the result well enough. > You've made my day ! I'm glad I could help.