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> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:49:06 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:39:52 -0400
> > 
> > FWIW, I think saving a 100MB is worth the extra work.
> 
> We cannot make that decision, only Phillip can.

And btw, invoking through a batch file is in no way 100% transparent.
For example, I think users who start Emacs from MSYS Bash will have to
go through cmd.exe, because Bash cannot interpret batch files
directly.  So we will have to provide both a batch file and a Unix
shell script, at least.