From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image DLLs for the Windows binary of Emacs 22.2 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:56:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <873asf5404.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <47A11D80.4050507@gnu.org> <000701c86c1b$2a88e2f0$2958908d@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202673379 5421 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2008 19:56:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angeli@caeruleus.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 20:56:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOII5-0006fA-IC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:56:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOIHc-00021p-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOIHZ-00021B-ID for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOIHX-0001zS-W6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:56:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOIHX-0001zL-Sh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOIHX-0001xD-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([81.5.33.57]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id KEK66051 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:55:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <000701c86c1b$2a88e2f0$2958908d@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:88660 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:28:50 -0800 > Cc: > > > > Any comments or a decision about the other image DLLs? > > > > I'd also like to see them included. Emacs on Windows > > currently is like a building kit and users don't particularly > > like this. Following the AUCTeX release today we already had > > a user who rather wants to keep his old installation instead > > of getting the official Emacs 22 package because putting > > everything together was too time consuming for him. > > FWIW, I second everything Ralf said. > > > FWIW2 - On MS Windows, users are used to just downloading and clicking a > couple times to install an app. Lennart's EmacsW32 provides that - great. > But AFAIK, users need to fiddle a bit to not include Lennart's enhancements. Volunteers are welcome to come on board and help Jason in packaging and testing binary distributions of the Windows port.