From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:05:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83turofw8r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pn2dq3xv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ft39hnk1.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7nppzjy.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838s90hhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh1gircl.fsf@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36832"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 10 20:06:48 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kyg36-0009TU-1g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:06:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36124 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyg34-0006Dn-PK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:06:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyg22-0005ME-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:05:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyg21-00020B-OK; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:05:41 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2710 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kyg20-0002q6-B1; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:05:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zh1gircl.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:23:06 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262876 Archived-At: > From: Phillip Lord > Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:23:06 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I'd like to keep the Windows package using the default options as far as > possible, mostly because I am lazy and because it means that the windows > package updates when ever the defaults do. It's your call. I just envision many users to expect native-comp support and asking why isn't it there. > Currently, we have > > --without-dbus --without-compress-install > > The latter is so the documentation works without gzip. The latter is > because we don't normally have dbus available. I am not sure why either > of these needed (i.e. why they are not the default on windows). The gzip thing is again your call (having gzip in the package is no big deal, IMO). Dbus is not really useful on MS-Windows, so IMO it makes no sense building with it.