Re: Make check in trunk

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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?

As mentioned, you have updates (MSYS2 maintainers are very quick at
following upstream releases) and a 64 bit environment (something that
MSYS/MinGW doesn't provide.)

Now speaking from the user or prospective contributor, including a MSYS2
bash script that installs the requirements would lower the threshold for
those who wants to track the development sources. Do you think it is a
good idea?