From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.4 Updated Windows Binaries published Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:52:42 +0200 Message-ID: <83d39tcjdx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4F2EAF8E.3010106@alice.it> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328460770 22320 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2012 16:52:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 05 17:52:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru5KZ-0007VA-Rb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:52:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru5KZ-00004y-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43417) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru5KX-00004s-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru5KV-0006Cc-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:34728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru5KU-0006CY-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:52:43 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LYX00A00IS0F800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:52:41 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.33.58]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LYX008HPIVSUNA0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:52:41 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4F2EAF8E.3010106@alice.it> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148194 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:34:22 +0100 > From: Angelo Graziosi > > Christoph Scholtes wrote: > > > The binaries were built using the following libraries: > > giflib-4.1.4-1 > > jpeg-6b-4 > > libXpm-3.5.8 > > libpng-1.4.3-1 > > tiff-3.8.2-1 > > zlib-1.2.5-2 > > Does an user need those libraries at run-time? No, Emacs will run even without them. But some features, like support for displaying the corresponding image types, will not be available. > If "yes", why their > binaries aren't in the emacs tar-ball? Only libXpm.dll is found... :-( libxpm is required for displaying the color icons on the tool-bar buttons, that's why it is stored near the binary distribution. > At least, why not adding a link to those binaries? The links are in the README.W32 file. > The best solution, in any case, would be to ship all the needed binaries > from which Emacs binaries depend on... :-) ...at least as separate > package (== tar-ball)... :) That means unnecessary complications for the volunteers who produce the binaries, see the recent threads here (about GnuTLS, but not only about it). For starters, we need to provide sources as well, and that might be tricky legal-wise.