From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs binaries for Windows Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:54:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83d1l0c0rs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86mvk9jj6i.fsf@gmail.com> <83wpjcdd8w.fsf@gnu.org> <86k2fc7m7x.fsf@gmail.com> <83vaywd4vi.fsf@gnu.org> <86zio71luu.fsf@gmail.com> <83bn0ncu0b.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2f9um10.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471877713 16185 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2016 14:55:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: arash.esbati@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 22 16:55:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bbqd2-0003sa-JV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:55:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbqcz-0006KW-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbqc3-0006Fv-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbqby-0000to-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36022) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbqby-0000tk-Hf; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1623 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bbqbx-0001fV-M9; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:54:02 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k2f9um10.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206750 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: Arash Esbati , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:37:47 +0100 > > > FWIW, I think it's better to have the DLLs and their sources available > > in separate archives, not in a single large one, because some users > > may wish to install only part of the libraries. But that's me. > > > My inclination would be to provide three files. > > emacs-*-bin.tar.gz -- as is now (with libnoX4) > emacs-*-libraries.tar.gz -- with binaries for libraries > emacs-*-libraries.sources.tar.gz -- with sources for the libraries No, I meant each library in a separate archive. Again, that's just my opinion, something I do all the time on the ezwinports site.