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Re: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [feature/internal-msys] thoughts of a more function windows package
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:11:15 +0200

> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:29:58 +0000
> 
> The plan would be during the installation run the newly installed
> Emacs. This would download, unpack and configure msys2, as well as
> install a variety of related packages (git, find, gzip, hunspell,
> aspell, what ever). For those using the zip package of Emacs, they would
> achieve the same thing by running a command.

Could you please elaborate on how will this work for users?  E.g., how
about describing the steps a user who installs Emacs should do to
install these additions?  I don't think I have a clear picture of what
you intend to do, and the files you committed are just the starting
point, so they don't answer this question.

Btw, I don't think I understand why you insist on using 'concat' to
generate files names from 2 components: that's what expand-file-name
is for, and it does that better.

One other not about the code you committed is that modifying PATH from
within Emacs is not generally a good idea, it has some subtleties.



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