From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.4 Updated Windows Binaries published Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:10:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4F2EAF8E.3010106@alice.it> <83d39tcjdx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328469089 15483 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2012 19:11:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 19:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 05 20:11:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru7Ue-0008JQ-VL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:11:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru7Ue-0008Tn-DE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:11:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru7Ub-0008Tf-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru7Ua-0003TF-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:44548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru7UV-0003SX-O6; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:11:11 -0500 Original-Received: by lamf4 with SMTP id f4so3121192lam.0 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:11:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=t6pb3K/P0yuC2Kvow6u2LyMxVcmpw2CT32/zF63q49c=; b=AwaX3QCdJvJKdnTQRqfMcemW5LM7bhqEzZ9aGSXay9O4He79jAVVyz1bxvFEkcG/nu IIfrLpHwgOTvnJnsPmUxL8VBdhl3nPhDnUY4WZRBMWU1YKeX7eQZ5ZP5NfHy8qUb/SMi +kc24a0xpfI/FRBxm2e+9DLxiYfo3qfG+ddCU= Original-Received: by 10.152.147.1 with SMTP id tg1mr7976341lab.22.1328469070417; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:11:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.112.12.6 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:10:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83d39tcjdx.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.215.41 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:148203 Archived-At: On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 17:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:34:22 +0100 >> From: Angelo Graziosi >> >> Christoph Scholtes wrote: >> >> > The binaries were built using the following libraries: >> > giflib-4.1.4-1 >> > jpeg-6b-4 >> > libXpm-3.5.8 >> > libpng-1.4.3-1 >> > tiff-3.8.2-1 >> > zlib-1.2.5-2 >> >> Does an user need those libraries at run-time? > > No, Emacs will run even without them. =C2=A0But some features, like suppo= rt > for displaying the corresponding image types, will not be available. So if the question was "any user" than the answer is "yes" ... ;-) > That means unnecessary complications for the volunteers who produce > the binaries, see the recent threads here (about GnuTLS, but not only > about it). =C2=A0For starters, we need to provide sources as well, and th= at > might be tricky legal-wise. I have not been following this particular thread, but my understanding is that only a link to the relevant sources is needed now - if we can guarantee that this works. (This was my understanding of a message from RMS quite some time ago. I might have misunderstood it, though.) A real problem is however to keep the libraries updated. There could be security problems for some of them and that requires an easy way to remind about security updates and do them.