From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 29.0.50 Snapshot binaries for WIndows Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:31:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ley7z1u4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15148"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, corwin@bru.st, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 05:32:08 2022 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 1nLdtI-0003lh-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2022 05:32:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49784 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLdtG-00037I-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:32:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLdsZ-0002P6-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:31:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=49224 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLdsZ-0008S9-4b; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:31:23 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=W7YZdi+EN0SHqwfS+RAio2JgdYEFBh8RhbHstwFadww=; b=fe2J4lJx/77A FwjA6xXjgbafw77kv2HrTAebNUQrAk6LI7OE90BdYclzBELvsPeJUDtNWoDhK6GmCuEfV/bLKAqVd HqdhNmksZs6KCUaXoXZsleBR7QEUoVr0b/qFq3XcbTF8ahekJk3DdPZoML/RNwOcYh0sqgOj44Haj 4JYKuIt8PBwhOu5NTfi8Xcm6i8A/R2N5O2cshRFwDHClPOvNK5UfAv1PJUE3Ah2e5r31FWgYiymyI 16btuuwBcHLhmBkCGSfr0++J/VA1p2R5rp+Ylb4y7sGefDKI5TQZqkkMI36d4TV6oSV+DNFDbqZbx QImA6Jds2NeRCetSZSNBbQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nLdsP-00043Z-WC; Sat, 19 Feb 2022 23:31:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83ley7z1u4.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:40:19 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:286501 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > As much for my own testing as for yours, I have created a set of > > > binary "snapshot" releases of Emacs for Windows. > > > > Do we have something lie this for GNU/Linux? > > Or is there some reason why there is no need for them on GNU/Linux? > GNU/Linux users have the various distros that package Emacs binaries > for them. The volunteers who produce the MS-Windows binaries are in > effect acting like such a distro for Windows users. That's true, but (1) they do this for _releases_ and (2) it is not new. The "snapshot" releases are apparently something else. How are they different from the Windows binaries volunteers have made in the past? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)