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 19:58:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9zaebe9.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> <87eguefyxh.fsf@arcor.de> <83r3ye8umq.fsf@gnu.org> <877g06fu99.fsf@arcor.de> <83lhom8s9u.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq86ed6y.fsf@arcor.de> <83iojq8pmi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413050360 26349 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 17:59:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:59:20 +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 19:59:13 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 1Xd0wj-0004ds-0g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:59:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0wi-0007Ut-He for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:59:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0wU-0007Tx-HL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0wM-0001fX-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0wM-0001fR-6i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:58:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0wL-0004Vo-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:58:49 +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 19:58:49 +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 19:58:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 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:FmTThakXOz4H2hDQZv5RrrPi3BM= 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:100432 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Engster >> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:19:49 +0200 >> >> Yes, and good dependency management through a package manager could >> avoid such problems. > > Only if the two teams (MSYS and Msysgit) cooperate with one another, I > think. Otherwise, it would be very hard to solve this problem. I'd be surprised if the MsysGit guys wouldn't be happy to concentrate on Git instead of the environment it needs. Just look at issues like https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/31 regarding the ancient OpenSSH version that ships with MsysGit. There simply is no one who actually likes to deal with building this stuff. -David