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bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows
From: |
Arash Esbati |
Subject: |
bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:39:35 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 55930@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:18:06 +0200
>>
> First, I think MinGW64 should nowadays be the main reference, and
> mingw.org's MinGW just the second choice, specifically for 32-bit
> builds targeting old Windows versions (which MinGW64 and MSYS2 no
> longer support).
Thanks for your comments. I presume you mean to make this change
through the entire FAQ, right? Starting with
1.2 Which versions of Windows are supported?
and not only in
11 Other useful ports
?
> We should mention this aspect, and also say what "older versions" are
> not supported by MSYS2, so that people won't be unpleasantly surprised
> after spending their afternoon downloading stuff.
Agreed.
>> @@ -2139,7 +2143,7 @@ MinGW
>> @cindex msys environment
>> @cindex subprocesses, mingw and msys
>>
>> -@uref{http://www.mingw.org/}
>> +@uref{https://mingw.osdn.io/}
>
> The correct URL is https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/
I will change that.
> This is IMO too detailed for no good reason. We don't need to "sell"
> MinGW64. I think we should make it shorter, in the same style as the
> MinGW/MSYS section.
I don't have any MinGW64/MSYS2 shares ;-) I just wanted to cover the
aspect that many precompiled binaries of programs are available from
this project. Maybe I put that note somewhere else.
Thanks. Best, Arash
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/12
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/12
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/13
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/13
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows,
Arash Esbati <=
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/13
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/14
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/14
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/15
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/15
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/15
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/16
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Jim Porter, 2022/06/13
- bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows, Arash Esbati, 2022/06/14