From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:06 -0400 Message-ID: <85ppyueetl.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <83wqt41v0t.fsf@gnu.org> <57BB4400-A75B-417E-B2E3-56B3079C44CA@mit.edu> <8338vq204d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363762847 21456 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2013 07:00:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:00:47 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 20 08:01:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UID1J-00087c-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:01:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UID0w-0001ZK-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UID0s-0001ZF-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UID0p-0002Zk-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:42 -0400 Original-Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.11]:44171) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UID0o-0002ZD-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from TAKVER ([unknown] [72.66.125.164]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MJY009WL647LI60@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:00:23 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <8338vq204d.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:58:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.46.173.11 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:157983 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > The above is actually common knowledge for Windows users, No, it's only common knowledge among Windows developers. My mother is a typical Windows user; she has _no_ idea what a dll is, nor what to do with it. But we are discussing users of Emacs on Windows, which is a tiny subset of Windows users. I don't know what a typical Emacs user (Windows or otherwise) knows about shared libraries in general, but there's no harm in assuming they know nothing. In installation instructions, it is certainly appropriate to state something like: unzip the archive, place the resulting .../bin in PATH -- -- Stephe