Re: Are there non-mingw32 binaries for Windows?

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:

> On 20 November 2016 at 21:24, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
>> Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Without wishing to confuse matters, there /is/ an Emacs that's
>>> "native to MSYS" and uses MSYS-style mounts, but it's a different
>>> beast. The MSYS package repository has three builds:
>>>
>>> mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-emacs 25.1-1
>>> mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs 25.1-1
>>> msys/emacs 25.1-1
>>>
>>> The first two are native (to Windows) and are hardly patched from
>>> upstream. They're very similar to the official FSF builds for Windows.
>>> The third is "native to MSYS". Most people don't need it but it can
>>> come in handy if you spend time in MSYS.
>>
>>
>> I think for 25.2 I should change the name of the zip files on
>> ftp.gnu.org. The "mingw-w64" addition is not really necessary and might
>> well cause confusion.
>
> OK, but to clarify, the three names I quoted above are the package
> names on MSYS2, and all the packages there are prefixed in the same
> way. But that's according to some schema that's operative for them --
> no reason to cargo-cult it into Emacs.


Sure, I understand that. I'm not sure where I got it from. Probably,
approximately the same place.


> But is it worth looking into whether there's a more-or-less
> established convention that could be said to apply to the binaries
> available on ftp.gnu.org?

It would be, and I shall.

Phil