From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 20113@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: mariovalspi@gmail.com
Subject: bug#20113: windows binary contains two identical executables
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:37:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kmpp88291k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bnjt1u7k.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 16 Mar 2015 05:45:19 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Yes. It's a feature: it allows you to later override emacs.exe with a
> newer version, but keep the other one for reference, if you need it.
I wonder if this is worth it on MS Windows.
IIUC, install does not install the binaries to a single /usr/local/bin
equivalent, instead each Emacs version lives under an entirely separate
top-level directory? So is anyone really likely to just replace one of
those binaries within that tree?
> Ideally, they should be hard links to the same data, but AFAIK zip
> files on Windows don't support hard links.
What about symbolic?
But really it sounds like it's not worth having two versions on MS
Windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-16 16:37 UTC|newest]
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2015-03-15 23:59 bug#20113: windows binary contains two identical executables Mario Valencia
2015-03-16 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-16 16:37 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2015-03-16 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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