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.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:41:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87tx3alfss.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbns9d5j.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnpjaipi.fsf@gnu.org> <83a953aebr.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq868zb4.fsf@gnu.org> <87eguefyxh.fsf@arcor.de> <83r3ye8umq.fsf@gnu.org> <877g06fu99.fsf@arcor.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413045744 6745 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 16:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:42:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 18:42:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1XczkF-0001WD-BV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:42:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XczkE-0002wQ-V5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xczjy-0002wA-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xczjs-00057Y-Sl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:41:58 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xczjs-00056v-Lv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:41:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xczjr-0001QV-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:41:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 198.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net ([79.158.173.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:41:51 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 198.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:41:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.red-79-158-173.staticip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rT/8y3s+07HxBifFZydTMVpsVFw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100423 Archived-At: David Engster writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >> First, even the above is not a large list. Second, I think you >> exaggerate a little bit (e.g., GnuWin32 didn't see any new versions >> since 2010, so no need to watch them anymore. MinGW/MSYS and PuTTY >> are likewise very seldomly updated. > > Yes, that's why I practically never check them. If there's a security > update, or a nice new feature, I probably won't notice. Or what about > the latest bash security problem? I actually don't know how many > bash.exe I have on my Windows system in need of an update. MSYS2: pacman -Syu > Oh, and don't get me started on MsysGit shipping its own MSYS > environment, which is oh-so-slightly incompatible to the one from MSYS > itself, leading to weird errors when you accidentally mix them, which > can easily happen since you usually have both in PATH. MSYS2 has not this problem. Just put Git at the end of PATH and it will work fine from MSYS2 shell (or Emacs). > I'd love to have *one* central MSYS which other packages could depend > on. MSYS2 provides a Posix-y buid of Git and a native one is on the works. As the ice on the cake, the time required for setting up an enviromnent for building a Windows native Emacs on MSYS2 is determined by your Internet connection. Everything is there, up to date, one command away.