Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, corwin@bru.st, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:18:45 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> 1- let the user know that a native compiled Emacs is being run without
> >>    access to libgccjit, not only it might not function as expected but
> >>    most likely I guess that if the user compiled a native compiled Emacs
> >>    he wants to have it working with native code.  So in general I guess
> >>    it might be informative.
> >
> > This is unlikely to happen if the user has libgccjit installed: if it
> > is found when building Emacs, it will most probably be also found when
> > running it.
> 
> Because is unlikely is suspect might be of interest in this case.

Maybe so, but we don't provide any similar diagnostics for any other
optional DLL.

> > So the warning will mostly show when the user installed Emacs built by
> > someone else.  In which case, the user already made the decision not
> > to install libgccjit, so warning the user about that would be in
> > many/most cases redundant.
> 
> How do we know the user made this decision intentionally?

We assume they read the documentation, which tells them about the
optional libraries.