From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.windows,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows Binaries Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:35:30 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <506D1212.1090903@cs.ucla.edu> References: <156DE452DC5D4708A4FCAD4AD4D7B0DE@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349401885 24504 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2012 01:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 01:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, David Vanderschel , rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 03:51:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-help-emacs-windows@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 1TJx48-0005tv-Fv for gnu-help-emacs-windows@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:51:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46403 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJpaY-0003o0-A2 for gnu-help-emacs-windows@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:51:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJd9q-0003SV-Jk for help-emacs-windows@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:35:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJd9p-0003jH-LO for help-emacs-windows@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:38455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJd9n-0003eE-4k; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DF039E8013; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:35:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZQ0og0tb4dOp; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:35:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 35D8539E800A; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 21:35:29 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:51:53 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion forum for users of the GNU Emacs port to Windows List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-emacs-windows-bounces+gnu-help-emacs-windows=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.windows:5559 gmane.emacs.devel:154041 Archived-At: If Dropbox is used to distribute Windows binaries, I suggest that any announcement of a new distribution contain a URL that anybody can use, without Javascript. That will make it more convenient for many users. For example, here's a URL that works for the latest such (unofficial) distribution. https://dl.dropbox.com/sh/7jr3vbv9tm1zod0/0erq5hCrsa/emacs-trunk-r110346-w32-i386.zip?dl=1 Here's a shell transcript to illustrate that this URL works for me, without JavaScript: $ curl -O 'https://dl.dropbox.com/sh/7jr3vbv9tm1zod0/0erq5hCrsa/emacs-trunk-r110346-w32-i386.zip?dl=1' % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 58.5M 100 58.5M 0 0 2168k 0 0:00:27 0:00:27 --:--:-- 2180k $ ls -l emacs-trunk-* -rw-r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 61421534 Oct 3 21:26 emacs-trunk-r110346-w32-i386.zip?dl=1 $ sha256sum emacs-trunk-* c5b0638dab82f3634dd2adee10097bad95801b2e28a050a706ec780024a2c6cd emacs-trunk-r110346-w32-i386.zip?dl=1