Re: Suggested amendment to www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows

[David Wardle <d.wardle.b@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone.

I have edited the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools
... to give readers some warning that, although Ediff can be used with
Windows, it's currently not easy to install unless you have knowledge
of using GNU software in a Windows environment.  I don't like doing
this because it will obviously deter prospective Ediff (and hence
Emacs users) (and, after I did finally manage to get Ediff working, I
did find it useful).  However, I feel that it's only fair to give
readers such a warning or they, like me, might end up wasting a lot of
their time.  A better solution would be to make Ediff easier to
install but I leave it with you.

Sincerely,

David Wardle.


On 11/29/17, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: David Wardle <d.wardle.b@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:24:27 +1300
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>> I have a suggested amendment to:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows
>>
>> I've put the suggested amendment and the reason I suggest it below (in
>> separate sections).
>
> My opinion on this is that this suggestion is too much for us.  I
> could support adding some short text saying that additional tools
> ported from Unix are needed to support various Emacs features, with a
> list of suggested packages, but that's as far as I would go.  YMMV.
>
> Thanks.
>