bug#24761: Emacs not recent for MSYS

bug#24761: Emacs not recent for MSYS

[Mirko Luedde]

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dear all, i find that

(1) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ says: .. Emacs 25.1 - latest
release ..

(2) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html says; .. MSYS2 users
can install Emacs .. pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs ..

(3) pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs says : warning:
mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs-24.5-5 is up to date

messages (1) through (3) cannot be true at the same time.

please fix!

many thanks.

mirko

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bug#24761: Emacs not recent for MSYS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mirko Luedde <mirko.luedde@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:55:59 +0200
> 
> dear all, i find that 
> 
> (1) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ says: .. Emacs 25.1 - latest release ..
> 
> (2) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html says; .. MSYS2 users can install Emacs .. pacman -
> S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs ..
> 
> (3) pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs says : warning: mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs-24.5-5 is up to date
> 
> messages (1) through (3) cannot be true at the same time.
> 
> please fix! 

We are not responsible for the schedule of MSYS2 releases of the Emacs
binaries, MSYS2 is a separate project.  So please ask them to update
their packages.

The official Emacs binaries for Windows are available from the GNU FTP
site:

  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

I'm closing this bug report, as it's not an Emacs bug or issue.

Thanks.

bug#24761: Emacs not recent for MSYS

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21.10.2016 22:55, Mirko Luedde wrote:

> (1) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ says: .. Emacs 25.1 - latest
> release ..
>
> (2) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html says; .. MSYS2
> users can install Emacs .. pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs ..
>
> (3) pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs says : warning:
> mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs-24.5-5 is up to date
>
> messages (1) through (3) cannot be true at the same time.

(2) doesn't say that the users can install the _latest_ Emacs this way. ;-)

Anyway, like Eli said, we're not responsible for MSYS2's release 
schedule, just like we're not responsible for the versions of Emacs in 
Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and other GNU/Linux distributions.

bug#24761: Emacs not recent for MSYS

[Óscar Fuentes]

Mirko Luedde <mirko.luedde@gmail.com> writes:

> dear all, i find that
>
> (1) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ says: .. Emacs 25.1 - latest
> release ..
>
> (2) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html says; .. MSYS2 users
> can install Emacs .. pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs ..
>
> (3) pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs says : warning:
> mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs-24.5-5 is up to date
>
> messages (1) through (3) cannot be true at the same time.
>
> please fix!

MSYS2 contains Emacs 25.1 since some time ago.

Make sure you execute

pacman -Suy

and that will upgrade all your installed packages, including Emacs.
If you don't have Emacs installed yet, do

pacman -Suy
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs

(replace the later with

pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-emacs

if you are using a 32 bit MSYS2 install.)

Please send further messages to the MSYS2 mailing list. Before posting
make sure you read some of the documents linked from

https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Home/

specially "Introduction" and "Installing and upgrading".