Re: Emacs freezes every now and then on my windows 7 pc

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <kjambunathan@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 07:10:09 -0700
> 
> > > Each week I hope for a new Windows build that works enough 
> > > to check the fix for some bug I filed for a previous build.
> > > But in some cases I have not been able to check fixes
> > > because of new bugs (including crashes).  And the Windows
> > > builds are no longer done weekly, it seems, which aggravates
> > > this problem.
> > 
> > Again, this is expected.
> 
> No, this degree of volatility is not expected, if expectation is based on past
> experience.

Maybe so, but then you need to adapt your expectations to the changing
reality.

> And the matter has nothing to do with whether someone builds Emacs personally or
> uses a binary built by someone else.  Who builds Emacs is irrelevant here.

It is relevant, because once a fix is committed, people who build
themselves can rebuild and have a stable binary.

> And the more frequently prebuilt Windows binaries are provided, the easier and
> quicker are the reporting and debugging of bugs.  That's an obvious benefit.
> Costs include the effort to build and post the binaries, of course.

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