From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:53:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnhp6v0c.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvimniba62.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 17 Nov 2019 14:39:54 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> Maybe streamlining the MSYS way to install Emacs is the easiest/best way
>>>> to solve this problem?
>>> Depends on what you mean by that (and what you mean when you say "MSYS").
>
> God question. IIUC one of the main problems with bundling tools is
> having to compile them, keep the versions up-to-date, distributing the
> sources, etc....
>
> So what I meant mostly was: don't actually bundle them, but just provide
> some straightforward way to install Emacs+tools where the tools are
> actually fetched from some other place that handles the job of
> compiling, keeping them up-to-date, distributing the sources, ...
>
> I assumed MSYS could be that "other place" but apparently that's not
> the case. Maybe that doesn't invalidate the underlying idea, tho.
For the current windows downloads I don't actually compile the tools,
just download them (except where source for the current version of a
binary does not exist, which happens rarely but often enough to
irritate).
I don't do anything for "keeping-up-to-date"; in fact, I keep the
dependencies pinnned at an old version for the entire release
cycle. This is obviously both sensible and problematic at the same time.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-18 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-17 11:50 Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows? Mathias Dahl
2019-11-17 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-17 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-17 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-18 15:53 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2019-11-18 18:05 ` Stephen Leake
2019-11-19 14:56 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-19 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 20:32 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-11-20 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:49 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 15:48 ` Phillip Lord
2019-11-18 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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