bug#27539:

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Lorenzo <lorenzo.adyns@openmailbox.org> writes:
>
>> Op 6/07/2017 om 15:03 schreef Ken Brown:
>>> On 7/5/2017 2:20 PM, Nicolas Petton wrote:
>>>> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Couple of questions:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Does documenting this imply Emacs developers provide support for
>>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think so, and this is AFAIK still in Beta. I think that if we're
>>>> going to add this documentation to the download page, we should mention
>>>> both.
>>>>
>>>>> 2) What about Cygwin?
>>>>
>>>> I'm completely ignorant when it comes to the Windows world.  If you or
>>>> someone else wants to give me installation instructions for Cygwin, when
>>>> I'd be happy to add it to the page.
>>>
>>> Cygwin users can install Emacs by using Cygwin's installer, setup-x86.exe
>>> (32bits) or setup-x86_64.exe (64bits).
>>>
>>> Ken
>>
>> Beat me to it :) I was just testing it. Seems to work really great & it is as
>> simple as downloading the above mentioned executables & selecting emacs to be
>> installed.
>
> It seems like there is already an accepted installation method for
> Windows.
>
> Since there has been no further progress here in 3 years, can we
> therefore close this bug?

More information was requested, but none was given within 7 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.  If there is more to do here, please reply to this
email (use "Reply to all" in your email client) and we can reopen the
bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas