From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FOR-RELEASE.W32 Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:38:26 +0200 Message-ID: <853bpjwiul.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123580645 23824 80.91.229.2 (9 Aug 2005 09:44:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:44:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 09 11:43:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2QdM-0004XE-23 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2QgP-0003WV-0R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2Qev-0003Bo-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E2Qes-0003AC-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:44:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2Qer-000382-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:44:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E2QnV-0004ch-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:53:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E2QXe-0006gd-By; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 95FC71C4F903; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:38:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:14:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41757 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41757 Juanma Barranquero writes: > As Richard has said that Emacs-on-Windows problems shouldn't delay > the release, Lennart and I have been thinking of adding a file > (tentatively named admin/FOR-RELEASE.W32) listing things that would > be nice to have before releasing a binary tarball for Windows. Personally, I think really bad problems on Windows should at least delay the release of a Windows binary: Emacs is one of the most important migration applications to GNU systems: once a Windows user uses Emacs for his editing tasks (and utf-8 is increasing our chances here), he'll be likely to install the GNU utilities (MSYS or Cygwin) so that many of Emacs' external commands will work. And then the step to going GNU all the way is rather small. In my opinion, a good Windows Emacs is useful for getting people to use GNU. That does not mean that Windows problems should delay releasing 22.1 for Unix-type systems, but I would tend not to release Windows binaries that are deficient. Even if that means that such binaries will only appear with 22.2 or so. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum