From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
Cc: 55930@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 21:36:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83edztvid5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fsk9buyr.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Arash Esbati on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:25:00 +0200)
> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:25:00 +0200
>
> I'd like to ask it makes sense to remove some items from FAQ for MS
> Windows in "11 Other useful ports"[1], namely:
>
> 11.4 UWIN
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
>
> UWIN is another POSIX emulation environment, like Cygwin and MSYS,
> that provides a large number of ported tools. The shell used by UWIN
> is ksh, the Korn shell.
>
> The link is gone. I did a quick search but could not find a
> replacement.
If it's gone, it should be removed from the FAQ, IMO.
> 11.5 GnuWin32
>
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
>
> GnuWin32 provides precompiled native Windows ports of a wide selection
> of Free software and libraries. Unfortunately, the ports are
> outdated.
>
> Outdated means last announcement is from 2010, the project looks
> dormant.
It is indeed dormant, but some of its ports are nowhere to be found as
native MS-Windows executables. Coreutils, for example.
> Maybe an entry for Msys2 should be added? I can send a proposal, but
> before that, I'd like to know how people think about it.
I hope you mean MinGW64 executables here. MSYS2 executables are just
like Cygwin: they aren't native Windows binaries, and have some subtle
compatibility problems.
Yes, if you can come up with a list of MinGW64 ports that are
available from the MSYS2 folks, by all means suggest a patch for the
FAQ.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-12 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-12 18:25 bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows Arash Esbati
2022-06-12 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-13 9:18 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-13 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 12:39 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-13 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-14 9:23 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-14 11:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-15 8:42 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-15 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-15 19:44 ` Arash Esbati
2022-06-16 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-13 23:46 ` Jim Porter
2022-06-14 9:36 ` Arash Esbati
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