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From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Kevin Layer <layer@known.net>,
	Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Are there non-mingw32 binaries for Windows?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 21:24:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y40d6e0f.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58oipvHknVevtpabxt90mne7DR74jBf8PNYA7jMw_hebVOw@mail.gmail.com> (Richard Copley's message of "Fri, 18 Nov 2016 19:28:50 +0000")

Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:
> Without wishing to confuse matters, there /is/ an Emacs that's
> "native to MSYS" and uses MSYS-style mounts, but it's a different
> beast. The MSYS package repository has three builds:
>
> mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-emacs 25.1-1
> mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs 25.1-1
> msys/emacs 25.1-1
>
> The first two are native (to Windows) and are hardly patched from
> upstream. They're very similar to the official FSF builds for Windows.
> The third is "native to MSYS". Most people don't need it but it can
> come in handy if you spend time in MSYS.


I think for 25.2 I should change the name of the zip files on
ftp.gnu.org. The "mingw-w64" addition is not really necessary and might
well cause confusion.

Phil



  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-20 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-16 23:47 Are there non-mingw32 binaries for Windows? Kevin Layer
2016-11-17  1:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-17  3:38   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-17  7:16 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-11-17 14:58 ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-17 17:54   ` Kevin Layer
2016-11-17 19:36     ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-11-17 20:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-17 21:46       ` Kevin Layer
2016-11-18 19:28         ` Richard Copley
2016-11-20 21:24           ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2016-11-21  0:18             ` Richard Copley
2016-11-21 20:56               ` Phillip Lord
2016-11-20 21:21     ` Phillip Lord

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