From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:44:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87eguefyxh.fsf@arcor.de> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413038752 26602 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 14:45:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:45:52 +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 16:45:45 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 1XcxvR-0007Mm-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:45:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcxvR-0007Nd-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcxv8-0007NL-2i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcxv2-0006Bw-4x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:45:22 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcxv1-0006Be-VY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcxv0-00077Y-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-063-216.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.63.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:45:14 +0200 Original-Received: from deng by dslc-082-083-063-216.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:45:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslc-082-083-063-216.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5PrUm+rBhCEi1tJqCiK7Ug/aM1A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:100412 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Stefan Monnier >> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:26:15 -0400 >> >> >> How is that going to tell you when a bugfix release has been released? >> > You watch the site where you downloaded the previous one from. >> >> Right, and of course that's a different site for each package. To me >> that reads "nightmare" ;-) > > That's an exaggeration: there are maybe 2 or sites to watch. Depends on what you have installed. I'd have to watch: - ezwinports, obviously. :-) - Emacs - depends on who is currently providing a binary, switches pretty much every year. - MinGW/MSys - GNUWin32 - MSYSGit - GnuPG - Mercurial - Python, Ruby: respective homepages - GNU Global - Exuberant Ctags - Windows-only-but-free stuff like Clink, ConEmu, Putty/Plink That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more. Obviously, I don't check all those regularly, only when I see the need, but that's not a good solution. -David