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Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows? |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:43:11 +0200 |
> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:49:46 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> Maybe streamlining the MSYS way to install Emacs is the easiest/best way
> >> to solve this problem?
> >
> > Depends on what you mean by that (and what you mean when you say
> > "MSYS"). In general, quite a few useful programs don't have native
> > Windows ports in MSYS2 repository, so you will get MSYS ports instead,
> > and that will cause subtle problems, similar to what happens when one
> > mixes Cygwin programs with a native w32 Emacs.
>
> For the case of diff and grep MSYS2 has native binaries
But that's about all, so it seems. There are no Coreutils, no
Findutils, no Grep, no Sed, etc.
> The real problem is that the MSYS2 approach would add some order of
> magnitude to the complexity of packaging and publishing Emacs, so there
> is no gain over "simply" adding the bare binaries to the current
> packages, quite the contrary.
That's another problem, yes.
- Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Mathias Dahl, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/17
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/18
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Stephen Leake, 2019/11/18
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/19
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Óscar Fuentes, 2019/11/19
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/20
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/18
- Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/18
Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?, Phillip Lord, 2019/11/18