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: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 18:48:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83wo1o59kt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pn7oft7r.fsf@gnu.org> <5fd1bc533b4bfe603d106fb3ee816208@russet.org.uk> <83364keznu.fsf@gnu.org> <87imdgrlpq.fsf@telefonica.net> <83tuwzewxa.fsf@gnu.org> <87eeo3sxw0.fsf@telefonica.net> <47436f6137c965db141e290de6597fd5@russet.org.uk> <464a5bf221d1d77ea13381fb901931fd@russet.org.uk> <834kovbx7x.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6yk72ec.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17935"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 17:49:23 2020 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 1kAEip-0004Yv-0j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:49:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42448 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAEio-0000o1-1D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAEi1-0000Mr-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAEi0-0007Yk-DX; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:48:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1744 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kAEhz-0003r3-NX; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:48:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:14:47 -0400) 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:254189 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Robert Pluim , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > phillip.lord@russet.org.uk > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:14:47 -0400 > > > The advantage of what I proposed is that it also detects the cases > > where HarfBuzz is available, but for some reason not used. > > That can be useful in some cases, but I think in the present case it's > a disadvantage: we want to know what the executable (and installed libs) > provide, rather than what the ~/.emacs chose to use. No, we want to know what the executable and its environment, as provided in the bundle, will yield at run time. I agree that it might catch some irrelevant circumstances, but that's inevitable, at least if such simple tests are being sought.