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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hak5zyk3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ppyueetl.fsf@member.fsf.org>

> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@member.fsf.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:06 -0400
> 
> > The above is actually common knowledge for Windows users, 
> 
> No, it's only common knowledge among Windows developers. My mother is a
> typical Windows user; she has _no_ idea what a dll is, nor what to do
> with it.
> 
> But we are discussing users of Emacs on Windows, which is a tiny subset
> of Windows users. I don't know what a typical Emacs user (Windows or
> otherwise) knows about shared libraries in general, but there's no harm
> in assuming they know nothing.
> 
> In installation instructions, it is certainly appropriate to state
> something like:
>     
>     unzip the archive, place the resulting .../bin in PATH

Thanks.  I took the advice and updated the README there with some
simple installation instructions.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-16 18:09 Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available Miguel Ruiz
2013-03-16 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-17 12:19 ` Uwe Siart
2013-03-17 18:28   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-17 13:16 ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-18  7:28   ` chad
2013-03-18  8:05     ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-18  9:25       ` chad
2013-03-18 11:31         ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-18 22:49     ` Richard Stallman
2013-03-18  1:43 ` Christoph
2013-03-18  6:39   ` Uwe Siart
2013-03-18 17:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-19  2:56     ` Christoph
2013-03-19 17:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-19 22:41       ` chad
2013-03-20  3:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-20  7:00           ` Stephen Leake
2013-03-20 19:00             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-12 14:05 Miguel Ruiz
2013-03-12 15:21 ` Uwe Siart
2013-03-16  6:58   ` Uwe Siart
2013-03-16  8:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-16  9:25 ` Miguel Ruiz
2013-03-16 10:21   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-16 10:58     ` Uwe Siart
2013-03-12 11:16 Miguel Ruiz
2013-03-12  7:52 Miguel Ruiz
2013-03-12 10:14 ` Uwe Siart
2013-03-12 10:27   ` Uwe Siart
2013-03-12 13:06   ` Xue Fuqiao

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