From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FOR-RELEASE.W32 Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:09:02 +0200 Message-ID: <42F880BE.6030209@student.lu.se> References: <17144.31484.91620.609525@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123584768 2250 80.91.229.2 (9 Aug 2005 10:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 09 12:52:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2RhM-000360-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:51:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2RkP-0006PI-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2RRW-0000ac-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2RRT-0000a5-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2RR0-0008Uk-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E2RGi-00074i-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.204.33) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42B813B000768878; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:09:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <17144.31484.91620.609525@farnswood.snap.net.nz> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41767 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41767 Nick Roberts wrote: > > As Richard has said that Emacs-on-Windows problems shouldn't delay the > > release, Lennart and I have been thinking of adding a file > > (tentatively named admin/FOR-RELEASE.W32) listing things that would be > > nice to have before releasing a binary tarball for Windows. > > > > Of course, there's no guarantee any of the listed things would be > > implemented... > > > > Any objection/addition/change to name/intent/contents? > >In the admin directory, it seems fairly clear that FOR-RELEASE contains tasks >whose completion are currently considered a prerequisite for a release. Since >this would not be the case for your proposed file, I suggest that it is called >TODO and placed in the nt directory. > > We wanted the w32 issues to be visible since we consider them important. I think that knowing the state of Emacs on w32 might be important to everyone interested in making a good release since whatever we think of w32 it is an important platform for many users. Many of those we are trying to reach are using this platform now (by force or will).