From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Make check in trunk Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:52:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83ppfef59r.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq9m813a.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d2bef0wk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1409680397 9800 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2014 17:53:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:53:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 19:53:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOsGT-0004rS-N7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:53:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOsGT-0003UE-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:53:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37967) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOsGC-0003U8-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOsG7-0006Xc-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:50947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XOsG7-0006XR-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:52:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XOsG6-0004fb-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:52:46 +0200 Original-Received: from uk.solarflare.com ([193.34.186.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:52:46 +0200 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by uk.solarflare.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:52:46 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: uk.solarflare.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.93 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0MA7+pi3hQnz/fgqEoSEBSNQrJM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173964 Archived-At: On Tue 02 Sep 2014, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Óscar Fuentes >> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:59:53 +0200 >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> > What would be the reasons for anyone to switch from MSYS to MSYS2? >> >> MSYS2 has lots of up-to-date packages which are straightforward to >> install. Starting from zero, you can setup the complete requirements for >> building Emacs as fast as your Internet connection allows. > > OK, but I asked about switching from MSYS, which presumes that such an > environment based on MSYS is already set up. Why would one want to > switch? I switched over last week, in order to start using the Mingw64 compiler in a painless way. The MSYS2 environment can be setup in very little time, and a GUI installer is available to get started. The package manager (pacman, ported from Arch Linux) handles installing the toolchains and their dependencies. The package archives include all of the optional dependencies for emacs on Windows (image libaries, XML, GnuTLS etc). HTH, AndyM