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29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS Windows

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From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 55930 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55930: 29.0.50; Removing some items from Emacs FAQ for MS
 Windows
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:18:06 +0200

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> 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/
>> 
>> 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.

Agreed.

>>   11.5 GnuWin32
>> 
>> Outdated means last announcement is from 2010, the project looks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.

Ok, I will not touch this entry.

>> 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.

I did.  But I was more thinking about an entry which covers MinGW-w64
and MSYS2, basically the same thing like MinGW and MSYS which is already
there.

> 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.

MSYS2 distribution offers more than 2.600 ports in their MinGW64 subsystem,
so a sensible list is rather complicated.  My suggestion is attached.  I
haven't made a ChangeLog entry yet, but in general:

 • The file nt/INSTALL.W64 is mentioned
 • A ; is added to the examples for .mailcap in order to be in line with
   Emacs MIME manual
 • UWIN entry is gone
 • Entry for MinGW64 and MSYS2 is added.

Any comments welcome.

Best, Arash

[efaq-win32.texi.diff (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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