Subject: Re: bug#24761: Emacs not recent for MSYS

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:21:22 +0300

On 21.10.2016 22:55, Mirko Luedde wrote:

> (1) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ says: .. Emacs 25.1 - latest
> release ..
>
> (2) https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html says; .. MSYS2
> users can install Emacs .. pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs ..
>
> (3) pacman - S mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs says : warning:
> mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs-24.5-5 is up to date
>
> messages (1) through (3) cannot be true at the same time.

(2) doesn't say that the users can install the _latest_ Emacs this way. ;-)

Anyway, like Eli said, we're not responsible for MSYS2's release 
schedule, just like we're not responsible for the versions of Emacs in 
Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, and other GNU/Linux distributions.