From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL.W64 Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2017 15:14:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9oitccy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87po9t2w96.fsf@petton.fr> <86vaj3x8ms.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83y3nnvgax.fsf@gnu.org> <86vairb860.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87lgjngpuz.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86r2tfb0x8.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> <83d14zundb.fsf@gnu.org> <87zi822z7z.fsf@gmx.de> <83po8ytez6.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509801302 14498 195.159.176.226 (4 Nov 2017 13:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 04 14:14:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eAyHn-0003Gx-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 14:14:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAyHu-0006Oq-94 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 09:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAyHJ-0006OT-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 09:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAyHE-0003UN-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 09:14:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAyHE-0003UH-Pp; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 09:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3716 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eAyHD-0002qi-Ln; Sat, 04 Nov 2017 09:14:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Fabrice Popineau on Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:29:40 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219920 Archived-At: > From: Fabrice Popineau > Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:29:40 +0100 > Cc: Michael Albinus , Stephen Leake , > Emacs developers > > > Do you believe D-Bus could run on w64? > > This question should be actually asked on the MSYS2 list, because the > MSYS2 project does provide a MinGW build of D-Bus, so I would expect > them to test the port and see that it is useful on Windows. Whether > the features it supports on MS-Windows are enough to satisfy what > Emacs needs, I don't know. > > But that won't make emacs run with DBus. Of course, it won't. But if D-Bus can be useful on Windows, we then have a reason to provide in Emacs the code which will support that. If not, working on such code is futile. That was, I believe, the reason Michael asked his question, and I tried to answer that.