Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:47:43 +0200
I think native build plus MSYS <URL:http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml>
is a pretty good combination, but I have not actively tried it myself,
not being a Windows user.
AFAIK, MSYS is not a full suite of ports, its purpose is to provide an
environment for running configure scripts. Also, it has some
Cygwin-style maladies which could be a pain on Windows (for example,
Diff uses binary I/O, and thus compares files different when they only
differ in their end-of-line format, Newline vs CRLF).
I have been playing with MSYS a bit and I strongly agree with Eli that
there unfortunately are some problems currently using MSYS. The
compression built into Emacs (jka) is another example where the handling
of end-of-line in MSYS makes it impossible to use. (I hope this one is
cured in very soon.)
There also currently seems to be a bug in MSYS sh parameter handling
which causes trouble.
However if these bugs where corrected and MSYS changed the end-of-line
handling (for example for diff) I think it would be very good to use
with Emacs. Until then it is much easier to use the GnuWin32 tools
(which however unfortunately misses a sh).
And actually, the situation is more complicated than that. For some
things you want to do you need a sh. Currently MSYS is the easiest way
to get that. In those situations you have to switch to the MSYS
environments for those things and then switch back to the GnuWin32
tools. Not very convinient indeed!
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