From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Windows barebin distribution Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:14:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83ehjqzk8j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4F8ADAFC.9030308@gmail.com> <831unp0xzq.fsf@gnu.org> <837gpj0vyo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353273404 11700 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2012 21:16:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cschol2112@googlemail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 22:16:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1TaCEX-0007w9-Fq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:16:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49535 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaCEN-00016k-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51283) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaCEI-00016T-9j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:16:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaCEF-0000y1-7t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:40134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaCEE-0000xx-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:16:35 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MDP00K00CCE9400@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:15:19 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MDP00JY4CDHOJD0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:15:17 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154932 Archived-At: > From: Mathias Dahl > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:56:54 +0100 > Cc: Christoph Scholtes , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > However, if the concept of the barebins were broken in some sense > (that's how I interpret your and others' replies here), it's not > anything worth arguing over. It was broken in the sense that they couldn't be used for the purpose for which they were invented, namely, to allow users re-dump Emacs after loading some non-standard combination of Lisp packages. The decision to drop the barebin distribution was made back in April, we just wanted to wait for some time to see if someone will miss them, after they were removed. No one did.