It's not a worry. Am happy to get feedback and you've been trying these things out. Getting windows binary testers can be a limiting factor here.
Phil Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@centralesupelec.fr> writes: > And sorry if my answer seems rude because I know you did an amazing job > for packaging this stuff. But there always will be a problem with > overlapping packages > which is difficult to solve. > > Fabrice > > 2017-11-23 8:15 GMT+01:00 Fabrice Popineau < > fabrice.popin...@centralesupelec.fr>: > >> >> >> 2017-11-23 0:06 GMT+01:00 Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@russet.org.uk>: >> >>> Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@centralesupelec.fr> writes: >>> >>> > 2017-11-20 18:31 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>: >>> >> But in general, your point is valid: various optional libraries need >>> >> support >>> >> files to work properly. >>> >> >>> > >>> > Given the numerous dependencies, and as long as msys2/mingw64 is >>> > concerned, it is so much easier to install msys2 and then request >>> > emacs from pacman than to package a standalone emacs. Lots of elisp >>> > packages may require other mingw64 packages : a spell checker, git, >>> > etc. It is easy to install them with pacman. The user will have a >>> > much harder time with a standalone emacs. If you want a full emacs >>> > experience, you need a full unix-like environment. >>> >>> >>> The new "with-deps" build and installer of Emacs actually packages quite >>> a bit of msys2/mingw64 including, for example, a python >>> installation. >>> >> >> This is precisely the kind of drifting I hate. >> When on Windows I don't want to use the msys2 python because it doesn't >> play so well. >> I vastly prefer Anaconda (On GNU/Linux too btw) >> If you start to package Python with emacs, you'll end up packaging the >> whole MSys2. >> At least that should be made optional. >> >> One nasty thing about DLLs. Anaconda ships with libpng.dll and others >> which are >> dynamically loaded by emacs. Reason why in my own copy of Emacs, I have >> restricted >> the path where dlls are looked for to the emacs binary directory. >> >> Fabrice >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
