From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 28 pretest MS Windows snapshots Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 11:57:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87d05bfsy8.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <525489ee-b53c-49f4-bcc1-512f48175e08@default> <87wo3lhmj7.fsf@russet.org.uk> <7d020925-f9c3-479c-9b84-7f9c3c1231ac@default> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11888"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 04 12:58:37 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 1jrfsT-0002zo-Ge for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 12:58:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53874 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrfsS-0003i1-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 06:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrfrn-00030F-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 06:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:60234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrfrl-0005a0-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 06:57:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=hyi+tas0lrL1BBeV1BOtAKQafHKqfdM+GXQY0rW4sNQ=; b=psOOIdrhfrqXBh/Fw2dmI3vkw Szct2AfzcgjwoSJ6+Hw/SA8C3CDlj5UOKJtSWGfGU7Ha2KBQtRvhevTBDlhHSWRUFSHvuRGqMUAHG h4m4fbj4QEcqF9WGoi+v707NqQq46HMyxKEohDBDERHjf+NuaWKs7PGgbUHaMBxfAzOw87JZkjtpG IIGPcyOVhCfLjawxysXw+esfv7dB3W65o5liZ74XSCpmXP2X/yPQlAR/S5tHQrCou7v+h4XLdaOuZ gvqS/QLnOT6H3wUB/l4B0jhHuLvG8jraMeTkFJU8zhNjRP39/ekRLR0mhgENI1RNrL0Q7DgPdhSJY Vrwl85EDQ==; Original-Received: from cpc142652-benw12-2-0-cust953.16-2.cable.virginm.net ([82.21.43.186]:53908 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1jrfrk-00007u-A2; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 11:57:52 +0100 In-Reply-To: <7d020925-f9c3-479c-9b84-7f9c3c1231ac@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 2 Jul 2020 17:37:13 +0000 (UTC)") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk Received-SPF: none client-ip=78.129.138.110; envelope-from=phillip.lord@russet.org.uk; helo=cloud103.planethippo.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/04 06:55:03 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN 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:252659 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> The deps file didn't upload. Not uncommon, the GNU upload process is >> horrible. They should be there soon, hopefully. >> >> The installer version including all the dependencies is the smallest >> package. > > I don't want to "install" Emacs, if that means doing something > more than just putting it into a folder. I want to have > multiple Emacs versions, in different folders. I just use the > executables that are in their bin folders. The installer does indeed just put stuff into a folder. It does add a shortcut to the start menu IIRC, although you can switch that off. Different versions will work, although I can't remember how it would handle multiple copies of the same declared version (i.e. snapshots). It just uses better compression, so it's much smaller. Phil