From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 26.1 on Windows is HUGE Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:41:19 +0300 Message-ID: <837ebsfuts.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0loujuf.fsf@telefonica.net> <87y34bxzoo.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87h8axwsv6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83k1ftfitn.fsf@gnu.org> <874l6wejm1.fsf@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="127681"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 18:41:43 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnd0-000X5U-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:41:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGncz-0006aN-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGncl-0006Zz-Nr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnck-0008RO-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1458 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnci-0002ph-Mb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:41:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <874l6wejm1.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119962 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:28:54 +0100 > > > We didn't invent this for Windows, this is how Emacs installs itself > > on all supported systems. We just follow that on Windows, to be > > consistent with all the other systems. > > Yes, if you install them in the same location. But if you do the > suggested thing of unpacking them with "extract" from the file explorer > menu, each will get their own directory, so you will have > emacs-26.1/bin/emacs.exe and emacs-26.2/bin/emacs.exe. The Explorer lets you control the root directory where you extract the files. What you say above is only the default, if the user doesn't change what Explorer suggests. > How many people unpack one Emacs version over another? There isn't any > real advantage to doing so, unless you want to share files between the > two versions. If you want to make the second binary optional, or remove it tell people who want to keep the old version what do, it's entirely up to you. Since you are producing the binaries, you get to decide on these details (and also to handle the complaints ;-). I wrote the above to explain that this arrangement is not something invented for Windows, it's how Emacs installs itself on all platforms.