From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22935: W32 Binaries should have a top-level directory Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:12:48 +0000 Message-ID: <87fuw2m1pr.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457385268 14484 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2016 21:14:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 21:14:28 +0000 (UTC) To: 22935@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 22:14:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2Tj-0003QF-61 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:14:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2Ti-0005Nx-CW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:12:49 +0000 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:114555 Archived-At: I've just noticed that between 24.3 and 24.4 the directory structure of the W32 binaries has changed significantly, and now lacks a top-level directory. Instead, they have the unix style /var, /share, /bin directories. I have discussed the issue with Eli who thinks this is right, and briefly summarise the reasons and my objections here. 1) It's a standard way of distributing MinGW binaryes 2) You can unpack a latter version on top of an existing version, and run multiple versions without fiddling with PATH. My counter is: 1) Having no top-level directory is fairly unexpected for software containing zip file (outside of a package management system). For example, the Emacs W-64 binaries on Sourceforge have a top-level Emacs directory. 2) A top-level directory makes it easily to remove things again afterwards. 3) The windows Emacs distribution now has no obvious README or COPYING notice -- this cannot go top-level, without a top-level directory. I would suggest that future Emacs zip files contain a top-level directory with the same name as the zip file, underneath which comes /var, /share, /bin, plus README.W32, plus COPYING. This still makes it easily to install over an existing distribution with a copy command.