From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:20:22 +0100 Message-ID: <871resy4y1.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87pn2dq3xv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ft39hnk1.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7nppzjy.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838s90hhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh1gircl.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83turofw8r.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19298"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:b/2wOel5WJUwLsXbzWyODhfNmnc= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 10 20:21:43 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 1kygHV-0004uY-Rv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:21:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49174 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kygHU-0003wU-Tt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:21:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kygGR-0003P2-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:20:36 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56072) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kygGN-0006f6-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kygGI-0003T1-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:20:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:262880 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. I agree. In fact, some popular packages already recommend using native-comp. >> 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. I think that Phillip's problem with that is that gzip does not exist as a MinGW package in the MSYS2 ecosystem.