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bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows |
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Sun, 12 Jun 2022 21:36:54 +0300 |
> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 20:25:00 +0200
>
> I'd like to ask it makes sense to remove some items from FAQ for MS
> Windows in "11 Other useful ports"[1], namely:
>
> 11.4 UWIN
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
>
> UWIN is another POSIX emulation environment, like Cygwin and MSYS,
> that provides a large number of ported tools. The shell used by UWIN
> is ksh, the Korn shell.
>
> The link is gone. I did a quick search but could not find a
> replacement.
If it's gone, it should be removed from the FAQ, IMO.
> 11.5 GnuWin32
>
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
>
> GnuWin32 provides precompiled native Windows ports of a wide selection
> of Free software and libraries. Unfortunately, the ports are
> outdated.
>
> Outdated means last announcement is from 2010, the project looks
> dormant.
It is indeed dormant, but some of its ports are nowhere to be found as
native MS-Windows executables. Coreutils, for example.
> Maybe an entry for Msys2 should be added? I can send a proposal, but
> before that, I'd like to know how people think about it.
I hope you mean MinGW64 executables here. MSYS2 executables are just
like Cygwin: they aren't native Windows binaries, and have some subtle
compatibility problems.
Yes, if you can come up with a list of MinGW64 ports that are
available from the MSYS2 folks, by all means suggest a patch for the
FAQ.
Thanks.
- 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 <=
- 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, 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, 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