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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:49:46 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> For the case of diff and grep MSYS2 has native binaries

But that's about all, so it seems.  There are no Coreutils, no
Findutils, no Grep, no Sed, etc.

> The real problem is that the MSYS2 approach would add some order of
> magnitude to the complexity of packaging and publishing Emacs, so there
> is no gain over "simply" adding the bare binaries to the current
> packages, quite the contrary.

That's another problem, yes.