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bug#7308: [patch] locate under windoze
From: |
Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
bug#7308: [patch] locate under windoze |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:13:14 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I agree, but the GnuWin32 people obviously decided differently, and
> neither I nor even you can do anything about that. In fact, I did my
> own port of `find' because the one from GnuWin32 was ridiculously slow
> (due to a misfeature in a library they used to ease the porting job).
It would be great people involved in Gnu apps development collaborate more.
>> I personnally use really few Windows systems and i don't want to learn
>> how to write DOS scripts.
>
> That's fine, but I was not talking about you, I was talking about
> people whom you advise to. Their preferences could be different.
Yes i understand, i was just pointing the difficulty for a user to make
working Gnuwin32 apps in Emacs, it is not easy unless people have your
knowledge.
>> OTOH the everything program work out of the box.
>
> But it looks like it's not 100% compatible with GNU `locate', is it?
> And I don't see that sources are available.
It share nothing with GNU locate, but maybe you are speaking of license?
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- bug#7308: [patch] locate under windoze, (continued)
bug#7308: [patch] locate under windoze, Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/10/31