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: "Official" binary of Emacs-24.4 for MS-Windows Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:29:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83mw8l5kr9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tx2t5uo9.fsf@gnu.org> <83siid5qgj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414179025 5492 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2014 19:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 21:30:18 2014 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 1XhkZ0-0007nH-KI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:30:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhkZ0-0001Tk-83 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhkYs-0001PV-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhkYm-0007d2-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:59624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhkYm-0007ca-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDY00D00R5NE200@mtaout27.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:24:59 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDY005SNR9NWI60@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:24:59 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 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:175790 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 20:03:51 +0200 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: Emacs development discussions > > To produce the binary distribution, should I do a plain "make > install"? Or perhaps: > make install GZIP_INFO= GZIP_PROG= > ? I don't see a reason not to compress files. Emacs can display and use them just fine, even if gzip.exe is not installed/available, right? > Also, the README file in [1] was written for 24.3. So I think it > should be renamed (README-24.3), and perhaps a new README-24.4 file > should be written (by someone knowledgeable enough, not me :-) ). Just replace that README with README.W32 that we have in the distribution. Thanks.