From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tarball builds Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:40 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <582be31a-5eb6-55a0-8cb0-940058ec631f@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87twe57lmn.fsf@xi.bootis> <45fb742d-0121-3588-e87d-3a80c9d1d056@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472573079 31573 195.159.176.226 (30 Aug 2016 16:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:04:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 30 18:04:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1belWU-0006v0-BY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 18:04:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1belWR-0008N4-MP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1belS0-00047L-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1belRu-0005dv-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:59965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1belRu-0005dp-P7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:59:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FCE161163; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id PnQs3ytjK-vr; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F832161378; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 5prwSdZet-1b; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14FC9161163; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:59:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206951 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have the impression that the same holds for Mac OS X and for Windows I don't use either OS, but I do still use Solaris 10 and the default inst= alls on=20 Solaris 10 (which is still shipping!) lack many developer tools like Auto= conf. I expect you're right that an "install from Git" approach would work for = major=20 distributors like Debian, or for Emacs developers. It's not so clear that= it=20 would work as well for people who want to install Emacs themselves becaus= e they=20 want to try Emacs out on a less-common platform, or they want to use the = latest=20 version of Emacs when their distribution has an earlier version.