From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:49:44 +0000 Message-ID: <87tv716v6v.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <83d0dq5t09.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="144318"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 18 16:51:37 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjJQ-000bQa-OH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:51:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36112 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjJP-0002il-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:51:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjHl-00020x-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:49:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjHk-00083y-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:49:53 -0500 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:56338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjHe-00080p-7Y; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:49:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=pod7XQDQXt36fZDFnUoFf3ceC0OeHAUxqTuwVuB6Vrg=; b=tnr5ouzEEHj9/JX3Uzxk7wmgZ kzrjJGS8ltCaWi632n5YFGBvIsJ3YXz+23XhHO43tFl3vRK1Ruui+KODntBGgRh6LsX1fU7jQ+Q3P R9ZmEk8GJZj2O1kEtJP90wYhW75BEFbCuSQ6eNnQtZF/nZBMy95wdTEdBV9XjBLuotfWWlqbBg10s 44dlZZ8GDieBnt+79+dm2elNbdKE7c6wTafncQIaKXghQTWGGQSS2Lzo7hFriepm8WeH4J8xI7Kow GrlImh1OxDZFu2pbI9Wp5tzHuiLyPjKZksZbNKoPXmp+c2AfMnZ2WU8lwZOLkWna/Du5Uo9KQ4EHH yf6M7CbgA==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-57.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.57]:59836 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjHc-00EAPM-R6; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:49:44 +0000 In-Reply-To: <83d0dq5t09.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:09:58 +0200") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:242376 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Stefan Monnier >> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:53:42 -0500 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> 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"). In general, quite a few useful programs don't have native > Windows ports in MSYS2 repository, so you will get MSYS ports instead, > and that will cause subtle problems, similar to what happens when one > mixes Cygwin programs with a native w32 Emacs. How do you tell the difference between the two? Are the ones in the Emacs windows download native? Phil