Re: tarball builds (was: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:15:58 -0400
> 
> I have the impression that nowadays it is at least as common to build
> from Git as it is to build from the tarball.  And building from the
> tarball will usually involve installing stuff anyway.
> E.g. to build Emacs from the tarball in a "typical" GNU/Linux install,
> a common recommendation is to do something like:
> 
>     apt-get build-deps emacs24
> 
> in which case, adding texinfo as a requirement is no big deal.
> 
> I have the impression that the same holds for Mac OS X and for Windows
> (tho the tools involved are similar) where users also already have to
> install a bunch of dependencies and "one more or one less" doesn't make
> much difference because those dependencies are provided by a packaging
> tool (Macport's, Mingw's, you name it).

It's not "one more or one less", it would require Autoconf and
Automake as well, at least.  It will also make the build much longer:
the release tarball currently builds in about 30 sec, whereas a full
bootstrap takes 20 times that.