From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:25:40 +0000 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <873a0yhknd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266668773 1776 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2010 12:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:26:13 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 13:26:11 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NioPS-00082p-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:26:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NioPR-0006SJ-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:26:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NioPL-0006SD-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43589 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NioPK-0006S5-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NioPJ-0008O2-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NioPJ-0008Np-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NioPI-0007wf-3w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:26:00 +0100 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:26:00 +0100 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:26:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lmi4bqCbJXoMsoLSwAgiSs7BKno= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:121244 Archived-At: On 2010-02-18 15:29 +0000, Drew Adams wrote: >> I will roll the next pretest, 23.1.93, next week, Friday the 26th of >> February. > > Never got a Windows binary for the last one, 23.1.92. > > Spent a lot of time fiddling with stuff, trying to help test bugs and bug fixes > (e.g. #5478) without the latest binary. Certainly couldn't file any new, > pretest-related bugs. > > If pretest feedback from Windows users is at all useful or important to you, > then you might consider this a loss. If not, just keep on rolling... Is a policy to provide a binary for windows? There's no binary for GNU/Linux, OSX and many others. But when I was using Windows, I have found the following two sources that provide excellent binary for windows. http://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/ http://www.ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/EmacsW32/EmacsCVS/unptch/emacs-from-cvs-091015.zip Cheers, Leo