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 24.3 windows binaries are available Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:28 +0200 Message-ID: <83hak5zyk3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wqt41v0t.fsf@gnu.org> <57BB4400-A75B-417E-B2E3-56B3079C44CA@mit.edu> <8338vq204d.fsf@gnu.org> <85ppyueetl.fsf@member.fsf.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363806120 11697 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2013 19:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 20 20:02:24 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UIOHI-0006IJ-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:02:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIOGv-0000Cz-A9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIOGr-0000Cc-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIOGU-0003r7-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:37392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIOGT-0003qv-SP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MJZ00M003CEWE00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:15 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MJZ00MM33GESP40@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <85ppyueetl.fsf@member.fsf.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:158004 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:06 -0400 > > > The above is actually common knowledge for Windows users, > > No, it's only common knowledge among Windows developers. My mother is a > typical Windows user; she has _no_ idea what a dll is, nor what to do > with it. > > But we are discussing users of Emacs on Windows, which is a tiny subset > of Windows users. I don't know what a typical Emacs user (Windows or > otherwise) knows about shared libraries in general, but there's no harm > in assuming they know nothing. > > In installation instructions, it is certainly appropriate to state > something like: > > unzip the archive, place the resulting .../bin in PATH Thanks. I took the advice and updated the README there with some simple installation instructions.