Q: status of EmacsNT 21.3 binaries

Q: status of EmacsNT 21.3 binaries

[Eric Pement]

I've been waiting for the GNU Emacs 21.3 binaries for WinNT to be
released for quite some time, and the ftp sites at GNU org and the
mirrors still do not have anything available, except the promise that
it's coming RSN (Real Soon Now).

How long does this typically require?  I'm fairly sure that it's been
well over a month since the 21.3 tarballs for GNU Emacs were posted.
What's the probable cause of the delay?

Re: Q: status of EmacsNT 21.3 binaries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 24 Nov 2003 19:28:11 -0800
> 
> I've been waiting for the GNU Emacs 21.3 binaries for WinNT to be
> released for quite some time, and the ftp sites at GNU org and the
> mirrors still do not have anything available, except the promise that
> it's coming RSN (Real Soon Now).
> 
> How long does this typically require?  I'm fairly sure that it's been
> well over a month since the 21.3 tarballs for GNU Emacs were posted.
> What's the probable cause of the delay?

This isn't the proper place to post this.  The problem lies with the
gnu.org sysadmins, as the tarballs were prepared by the NTEmacs
maintainer several weeks ago, but mere mortals are not allowed to put
things on ftp.gnu.org, for fear of malicious hackers.

So I suggest you post this on bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org or write directly
to Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>.  He would then prod the gnu.org
sysadmins, I hope.

Re: Q: status of EmacsNT 21.3 binaries

[Eric Pement]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote in message news:<mailman.547.1069744599.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>...
> > From: pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement)
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: 24 Nov 2003 19:28:11 -0800
> > 
> > I've been waiting for the GNU Emacs 21.3 binaries for WinNT to be
> > released for quite some time, and the ftp sites at GNU org and the
> > mirrors still do not have anything available, except the promise that
> > it's coming RSN (Real Soon Now).
[ ... ]

> This isn't the proper place to post this.  The problem lies with the
> gnu.org sysadmins, as the tarballs were prepared by the NTEmacs
> maintainer several weeks ago, but mere mortals are not allowed to put
> things on ftp.gnu.org, for fear of malicious hackers.
> 
> So I suggest you post this on bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org or write directly
> to Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>.  He would then prod the gnu.org
> sysadmins, I hope.

I did write to RMS, and he replied promptly but tersely that he
doesn't have anything to do with making or distributing Windows
binaries. He didn't say who *does* distribute those binaries.

However, your reference to the bug-gnu-emacs email address got me
thinking, so I visited the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup, and found this
message posted yesterday by Kevin Rodgers:

---
Jason Rumney sent me the precompiled Windows binaries for Emacs 21.3:

       4402129 Nov 11 00:07 emacs-21.3-barebin-i386.tar.gz
      13842323 Nov 11 00:55 emacs-21.3-bin-i386.tar.gz
      19473545 Nov 11 00:06 emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz
       3993557 Nov 11 00:06 emacs-21.3-leim.tar.gz
       7138900 Nov 11 00:04 emacs-21.3-lisp.tar.gz
       1854180 Nov 11 00:06 emacs-21.3-undumped-i386.tar.gz

and I put them on ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/tmp/.  He already sent
signatures to the maintainers list.

---

Thanks, Kevin and Eli, for your help with my question. I got the file.

Re: Q: status of EmacsNT 21.3 binaries

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eric Pement wrote:

> However, your reference to the bug-gnu-emacs email address got me
> thinking, so I visited the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup, and found this
> message posted yesterday by Kevin Rodgers:


Clarification: I merely forwarded a message Eli wrote to the
emacs-devel@gnu.org mailing list, on to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
mailing list.


> ---
> Jason Rumney sent me the precompiled Windows binaries for Emacs 21.3:
> 
>        4402129 Nov 11 00:07 emacs-21.3-barebin-i386.tar.gz
>       13842323 Nov 11 00:55 emacs-21.3-bin-i386.tar.gz
>       19473545 Nov 11 00:06 emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz
>        3993557 Nov 11 00:06 emacs-21.3-leim.tar.gz
>        7138900 Nov 11 00:04 emacs-21.3-lisp.tar.gz
>        1854180 Nov 11 00:06 emacs-21.3-undumped-i386.tar.gz
> 
> and I put them on ftp://fly.cnuce.cnr.it/pub/tmp/.  He already sent
> signatures to the maintainers list.


-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Q: status of EmacsNT 21.3 binaries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:32:40 -0700
> 
> Clarification: I merely forwarded a message Eli wrote to the
> emacs-devel@gnu.org mailing list, on to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> mailing list.

Thanks for the credit, but it isn't mine to take: it was Francesco
Potorti` who wrote that message, not me.  Francesco prepared the
original tarballs for Emacs 21.3, before ftp.gnu.org was cracked,
that's why Jason sent the Windows files to him.  fly.cnuce.cnr.it is
the machine used by Francesco.