From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: E Sabof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:37:38 +0100 Message-ID: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412894284 2740 80.91.229.3 (9 Oct 2014 22:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Alexander Shukaev Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 00:37:48 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 1XcMLD-0003hI-OY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:37:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcMLD-0004U4-53 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcMKx-0004T2-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcMKs-0002dW-BM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d]:34404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcMKs-0002b2-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id fb4so368449wid.6 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:37:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:user-agent:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=aaDT8MujcJwfeY6SPWnX5RAptbfulpNdgVWTCI/onqA=; b=O29BafUkkkSUmNbZOHujllSBmmbsvh6CAOmBYu3S29KiV+M9JeBH8JOyQu24dLti/3 +LPFwUFta5eDKVX7gA4pa9cKv6wOY53/qLo2dyFrK5Cwv7UxArm4Gy5dtcn6X7T9s31f Jo5REcuVLHGmAl1M5v0nuvkatU3D/2hc5KRJV8qsPEavWBiqRpr7d/Kib05GF9KP1cgo TI+E+M+qAOCWonyvK43z5hayKYC2y7ztoALTc+jvAYmgkkihOW9fwQrfKytuxRGOwiY6 BY57USHWJayQtOfcFv+huTdGzkbVdTCSkde3Bz1328oNFaZpOfXT/V3yBRCLK/zN7y1I ghLA== X-Received: by 10.180.84.5 with SMTP id u5mr807131wiy.17.1412894244660; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:37:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ubuntu ([31.185.51.22]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u8sm6214987wjq.1.2014.10.09.15.37.23 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:37:23 -0700 (PDT) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.90.1 In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d 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:100356 Archived-At: Last time I've tried using Emacs on Windows, finding adequate replacements for Unix utilities and libraries was a problem. There should be demand for a well-researched, batteries-included distribution. Evgeni Alexander Shukaev writes: > Hello everyone, > > I've been providing high-quality native builds of Vim for Windows for quite > some time now. The biggest point is that both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) > architectures are supported. They have become extremely popular ever since. > > Now I would like to spread out news that I've started Emacs for Windows > . It aims to provide > high-quality native builds of Emacs for Windows, and once again, x86 > (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures are supported (unlike official > binaries). Many external features and their corresponding runtime (shared) > libraries (DLLs) are already included, so there is no need to search > through different binary repositories to get up-to-date GnuTLS, for > example, or DBUS, and many others. These features have lots of runtime > dependencies, building which is quite cumbersome (if possible at all) for > inexperienced users. From now on, all of that is included in my > distributions. > > I'm looking forward to some feedback, if anybody finds that useful and > wants me to continue to support that project actively. It does not mean > that I'm going to drop that at all otherwise (since I'm using it as well > for myself), but if there is lack of public interest, then I would probably > update it much rarer than I could otherwise. > > Kind regards, > Alexander Shukaev