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: Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:48:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83r522cb8c.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319492903 3307 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2011 21:48:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleksandr Gavenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 23:48:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RISNW-0004lv-UI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:48:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISNW-0004Md-C4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISNU-0004MN-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISNT-0001Gw-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:57461) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RISNT-0001Gr-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LTL00A00B6FAT00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:48:13 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.212.197]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LTL00AL6B8D5F50@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:48:13 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:145486 Archived-At: > From: Oleksandr Gavenko > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:30:42 +0300 > > Build 21.3 have no any INSTALL. > > Build 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3 have INSTALL but have no 'nt/INSTALL'. If you are talking about the precompiled binaries, then their users don't need nt/INSTALL, which explains how to _build_ Emacs from sources. The file README.W32, which you just complained about, is the subset of nt/INSTALL that is relevant for precompiled binaries, and is placed near the zip files. > I suggest in next Emacs release add this file to > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip There's no need, see above. > This can help end user by providing necessary information > to properly install and configure Emacs under Windows. There's no need to install and configure a precompiled binary, beyond what's in README.W32.