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

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:23:47 -0700
> 
> I think several of us have been having the same or similar problems.  FWIW, I
> have only been able to use the last release (24.1) for quite a while now.  Some
> bugs, including crashes, get fixed, but new ones (including crashes) are
> engendered.
> 
> 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.  I would actually advise people who don't
build Emacs themselves not to use the development snapshots for
anything serious.

> There seems to be a fair amount of volatility in the C code at this time.  Just
> a guess, based on what I see going by in emacs-devel (without paying too much
> attention) and what I see in the (Windows) builds I try to use.
> 
> This is, fortunately, not typical of Emacs development; it is presumably
> temporary.  Let's hope things settle down soon.

Sorry, but I'm afraid this is here to stay, at least for a while.
There are a few contributors to Emacs who tend to make disruptive
commits at least once a week.  I see no signs that they will stop any
time soon.  The only time these attitudes can be kept in check is
during a pretest, or a feature freeze.