From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited)
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:07:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvimtitatw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imtieaiv.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:14:48 +0100")
> I think many editors would have "integrated" find tools even if this is
> just a call out to the OS GUI tool for doing the same. Likewise, spell
> checker.
Yes, I agree with the general desire. I just proposed a hypothetical
way to make the slope less slippery by reducing the difference between
the tools that are bundled and those that aren't.
> A quick "grep" for executable-find gives 300 hits. Many are
> languages (i.e. in progmodes), many are text processing commands or
> viewers. After that, we do not have that large a list.
[ Not sure what is the relation between executable-find and this
discussion. I was thinking about catching the error you get from
start/call-process and then looking up some ad-hoc list of
known commands and their corresponding MSYS2 package. ]
> I don't think that there are simple instructions on how to install these
> tools, other than "re-install this version of Emacs over msys2 (or just
> install Emacs via msys2) then add the packages with pacman". This is why
> I am asking the question.
I'm too far from Windows to know anything about that.
So maybe indeed there's no good solution here.
I was hoping we could write some Elisp that can download&install
a minimal MSYS2, and another that can ask MSYS2 to install some tool.
> On the other question, does excluding mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2 and subtree
> seem sensible?
I'm too far from Windows to know anything about that ;-)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-07 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-05 21:46 Bloat in Windows (revisited) Phillip Lord
2019-06-05 23:24 ` Tak Kunihiro
2019-06-06 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-06 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-06 20:14 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-07 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-06-09 21:16 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-10 8:59 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2019-06-10 12:17 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-10 15:47 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2019-06-10 21:28 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-13 17:27 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2019-06-13 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-13 18:12 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2019-06-13 21:34 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-14 8:19 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2019-06-17 15:59 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-18 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-18 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-18 19:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-13 21:31 ` Phillip Lord
2019-06-07 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-10 8:52 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2019-06-10 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-10 21:17 ` Phillip Lord
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