From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs binaries for Windows Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:26:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgzn4th3.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <86mvk9jj6i.fsf@gmail.com> <83wpjcdd8w.fsf@gnu.org> <86k2fc7m7x.fsf@gmail.com> <83vaywd4vi.fsf@gnu.org> <86zio71luu.fsf@gmail.com> <83bn0ncu0b.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2f9um10.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83d1l0c0rs.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471951660 2656 195.159.176.226 (23 Aug 2016 11:27:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:27:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: arash.esbati@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 23 13:27:35 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bc9rh-0000Fz-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:27:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bc9rf-0001jc-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53600) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bc9r8-0001jL-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bc9r6-0008I1-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([31.216.48.48]:57714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bc9r1-00087I-Bv; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 07:26:51 -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; bh=8z4OByBZpbVVDca0X58OAkhZzOQkoLkD+bWh5SvaWuI=; b=0AeriPzLrwTUTXLTCN4/l5UTht mSgKgTwW0MnxAawg5KHa1bKQd+SIi5M4zkadS55d1R0I3pWMWPPBPmRu6z7P6XFIzpr/Tf/pUlc69 5kGa8aY1UFMO/DkSMRUptUM3AVRN9kLA3wVD+KaBf4vQa+wEAiMhpC3pL5LhCmreFeLQ3g3No70rW Kg1Bl5adUFP+CgbUM+OqF3UWZz5AMas83fLOLtB1LtaKVIUNISp74s6lBKalJAY+wHNWCE6qWXwhe dEcRW0Bm1EjdMKxA3zvd+pDPldhac2WAzl4/mBREnAHK48w9p1HQZ/uinSIE+dCE9LAIIxFVx6EG1 /D3st9DA==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-60.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.60]:47696 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1bc9qC-002dmc-Fr; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:26:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83d1l0c0rs.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:54:15 +0300") 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 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 31.216.48.48 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206764 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) >> Cc: Arash Esbati , emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:37:47 +0100 >> >> > FWIW, I think it's better to have the DLLs and their sources available >> > in separate archives, not in a single large one, because some users >> > may wish to install only part of the libraries. But that's me. >> >> >> My inclination would be to provide three files. >> >> emacs-*-bin.tar.gz -- as is now (with libnoX4) >> emacs-*-libraries.tar.gz -- with binaries for libraries >> emacs-*-libraries.sources.tar.gz -- with sources for the libraries > > No, I meant each library in a separate archive. Again, that's just my > opinion, something I do all the time on the ezwinports site. Would that not be a pain to install? You have to unpack them all separately? Irritating from the desktop. Phil