On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> I don't like requesting users to update all of their software just
> because the bleeding edge has moved.  Let's not forget that sometimes
> (albeit rarely) upgrading to the latest and greatest can bring bugs.
>
> In this case, the payment for allowing older MSYS2 is very small: a
> single sentence.  I think we should have that.

I think the 'pacman -S msys2-launcher' should work for older MSYS2
without upgrading other packages, but then again, maybe not. There's
no practical way of testing older versions in the rolling release
model.
I suppose mentioning the bat file shouldn't be too much trouble (see attached).