Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:53:42 -0500
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Maybe streamlining the MSYS way to install Emacs is the easiest/best way
>> to solve this problem?
>
> Depends on what you mean by that (and what you mean when you say
> "MSYS").  In general, quite a few useful programs don't have native
> Windows ports in MSYS2 repository, so you will get MSYS ports instead,
> and that will cause subtle problems, similar to what happens when one
> mixes Cygwin programs with a native w32 Emacs.

How do you tell the difference between the two? Are the ones in the
Emacs windows download native?

Phil