Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 22:46:11 +0100
> 
> This also opens up the question of whether we *should* include any
> executables that would add value to Emacs on Windows; I hesitate to go
> too far down this route, mostly because maintaining an mini MSYS2
> distribution seems the wrong thing to do.
> 
> But some basic functionality that other editors get from the OS comes
> from external packages. I am thinking gzip, find, grep and aspell as
> essential.

Beware: you are on a slippery slope.  What about Diff, what about
'man', what about bzip2 and lzip and xz?  And if you provide a speller
(I suggest Hunspell, btw, not aspell), then what about dictionaries?
Etc. etc.