From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <86shff4hjx.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <87wp55t0un.fsf@petton.fr> <87r2vctasb.fsf@petton.fr> <87mv60t6sk.fsf@petton.fr> <87efrbu5hi.fsf@petton.fr> <834lrwfpsy.fsf@gnu.org> <87mv5nzt2b.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506045781 6786 195.159.176.226 (22 Sep 2017 02:03:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 02:03:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 22 04:02:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dvDIq-00018v-FB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Sep 2017 04:02:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvDIx-00028E-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvDIM-000284-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:02:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvDIJ-0006lH-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp129.ord.emailsrvr.com ([173.203.6.129]:44383) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvDIJ-0006i4-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp21.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp21.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id EB45D4013A for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:02:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Auth-ID: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: by smtp21.relay.ord1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: board-president-AT-tomahawk-creek-hoa.com) with ESMTPSA id A4AA6400EB for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:02:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender-Id: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: from Takver4 (76-218-37-33.lightspeed.kscymo.sbcglobal.net [76.218.37.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES128-GCM-SHA256) by 0.0.0.0:587 (trex/5.7.12); Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:02:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87mv5nzt2b.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:37:48 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 173.203.6.129 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218667 Archived-At: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> From: Richard Copley >>> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 08:25:31 +0100 >>> >>> Unfortunately, the release seems not to work on 64-bit Windows 7. See: >>> >> >> That's slightly inaccurate: the 25.3 release does work on Windows 7, >> it's just that the specific 64-bit binaries uploaded to the GNU FTP >> site don't. >> >> I'd suggest to upload fixed binaries. > > I don't know how to do this. I have upgraded by system and I do not know > how to downgrade it. Even if I did, I am afraid, I didn't think to > record the update times, so I don't know how to downgrade it to. > > Unfortunately, the best that I can currently do in terms of testing is > simply to run the binaries I create and see if they work. I try and test > them on a different machine, but I no have access to only 2 windows > machines and both of them use the same version of windows. > > Perhaps, I should start uploading binaries to alpha.gnu.org for a few > days, before moving them to release; this would be the second set of > binaries to have an issue in this cycle. +1; I can test those, on Windows 8. -- -- Stephe