From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:19:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87wq86ed6y.fsf@arcor.de> 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> <83lhom8s9u.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413048042 31895 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 17:20:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:20:42 +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 19:20:35 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 1Xd0LK-0007OK-BI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:20:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54809 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0LJ-00008R-Rg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0Kx-0008VT-It for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0Kp-00083H-1s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0Ko-000824-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd0Kn-0007Cb-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:20:01 +0200 Original-Received: from dslc-082-083-063-216.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.63.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:20:01 +0200 Original-Received: from deng by dslc-082-083-063-216.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:20:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslc-082-083-063-216.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZpI2vTKc9ar7xSxWunTzi3z57IM= 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:100426 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Engster >> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:25:54 +0200 >> >> 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. I'd love to have >> *one* central MSYS which other packages could depend on. > > Yep. I keep them separate, for that very reason. Which is a bit of > a pain when you need to configure and build a package that requires > Git as part of its configure/build process... Yes, and good dependency management through a package manager could avoid such problems. I lately learned that the new MSYS will even deliberately break binary compatibility, and I expect a whole new bunch of problems (not so much for me, because I know where to look by now, but for my colleagues at work which depend more and more on free software on Windows). -David