Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk]

On 2020-08-24 17:49, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> No, we want to know what the executable and its environment, as
>> provided in the bundle, will yield at run time.
>> 
>> I agree that it might catch some irrelevant circumstances, but that's
>> inevitable, at least if such simple tests are being sought.
> 
> Then I guess we disagree on the purpose.
> 
> For me, the purpose of such a list of features is to help the user
> figure out whether a given problem comes from their config or from the
> Emacs build itself.

Both of these purposes are useful. For my particular use case, it's the 
same thing, because I build Emacs in an environment kept specially for 
that purpose and do not have any config on that machine.

 From my perspective what I really care about, though, is getting 
something that can do some basic testing of my windows builds so I can 
(finally) get 27.1 out, and also future releases with some confidence 
that I haven't screwed up. If we can fulfil both use-cases with one 
library that's great; but I only have time to worry about one of these 
at the moment.

Phil