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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury
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> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:38 -0400
> 
> I don't know how many people will end up using configure on MS
> Windows

The plan is to move them all (i.e. all those who build Emacs
themselves) to using the Posix configury, and deprecate the current
nt/confugure.bat and makefile.w32-in files.  That's why I made this
possible in the first place.