From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Make check in trunk Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:34:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87sika7zhx.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <83ppfef59r.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq9m813a.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d2bef0wk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409675736 13280 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2014 16:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 16:35:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 18:35:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1XOr3H-0001UH-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:35:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOr3H-0004b6-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:35:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47531) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOr2T-0003cR-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOr2N-0003Dg-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:34:37 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOr2N-0003Db-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOr2M-0000yz-FC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:34:30 +0200 Original-Received: from 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.41.63.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:34:30 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:34:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZKQmj1joU6l/KZ7bhLz9cklxV4w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173960 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> > What would be the reasons for anyone to switch from MSYS to MSYS2? >> >> MSYS2 has lots of up-to-date packages which are straightforward to >> install. Starting from zero, you can setup the complete requirements for >> building Emacs as fast as your Internet connection allows. > > OK, but I asked about switching from MSYS, which presumes that such an > environment based on MSYS is already set up. Why would one want to > switch? As mentioned, you have updates (MSYS2 maintainers are very quick at following upstream releases) and a 64 bit environment (something that MSYS/MinGW doesn't provide.) Now speaking from the user or prospective contributor, including a MSYS2 bash script that installs the requirements would lower the threshold for those who wants to track the development sources. Do you think it is a good idea?