bug#9861: Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

bug#9861: Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

I ask same at:

   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/145483

Build 21.3 have no any INSTALL.

Build 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3 have INSTALL but have no 'nt/INSTALL'.

 From INSTALL:

   This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs.
   For more information specific to the MS-Windows, GNUstep/Mac OS X, and
   MS-DOS ports, also read the files nt/INSTALL, nextstep/INSTALL, and
   msdos/INSTALL.

Usual user can not found this nt/INSTALL...

I suggest in next Emacs release add this file to

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip

And may be rename nt/INSTALL to nt/INSTALL.w32
to follow README.w32 name convention...

This can help end user by providing necessary information
to properly install and configure Emacs under Windows.

-- 
Best regards!

bug#9861: Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:40:17 +0300
> From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
> 
> I ask same at:
> 
>    http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/145483

As I explained in my response, there's no need to do that.

I'm closing this bug report.

bug#9861: Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:49:44 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 9861-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:40:17 +0300
> > From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
> > 
> > I ask same at:
> > 
> >    http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/145483
> 
> As I explained in my response, there's no need to do that.
> 
> I'm closing this bug report.

On second thought, I decided that the top-level INSTALL file should
not be in the Windows binary distro either, as it references
nt/INSTALL and other absent files.  So I committed a change in
revision 106190 on the trunk not to copy INSTALL into the binary zip.

bug#9861: Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

25.10.2011 19:57, Eli Zaretskii пишет:
>>
>> I'm closing this bug report.
>
> On second thought, I decided that the top-level INSTALL file should
> not be in the Windows binary distro either, as it references
> nt/INSTALL and other absent files.  So I committed a change in
> revision 106190 on the trunk not to copy INSTALL into the binary zip.

I thinks that is good as decrease confusing about missing file.