From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:22:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83bnpjaipi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874mvcc1jh.fsf@gmail.com> <83d2a0bfwu.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4so9jjy.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbns9d5j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412965367 10919 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 18:22:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:22:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 20:22:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xceps-00060S-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:22:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcepr-0002ap-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38025) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcepc-0002aQ-8C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:22:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcepR-00043F-Ir for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:45805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcepR-000430-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND800D00PKQFW00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:22:12 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND800DHYR0ZD460@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:22:12 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100389 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 13:33:13 -0400 > > I'm surprised nobody has tried to solve this problem I think that's because there is no problem. > I mean, distribution via zip files is so painful for the user who has to > figure out on his own how to upgrade from one version to another, plus > all the dependencies, etc... If the package is done well, then all the dependencies are already bundled. And then all you need is unzip the file. How hard can that be? > How do people live with that? I can tell you that no one ever asked me to provide the binary zips I upload in any other form. Which makes me think there is no problem.