From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows Snapshots Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:36:31 +0000 Message-ID: <87374qmufk.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87bmjiqwtg.fsf@russet.org.uk> <03ec07d5-bdb9-4ffc-afb7-b77f45e2d852@default> <87efoel4cf.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87o9nen1oe.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87y3mizo04.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512398208 8681 195.159.176.226 (4 Dec 2017 14:36:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:36:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 04 15:36:42 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 1eLrrL-0001mQ-66 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:36:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLrrS-0002pw-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLrrL-0002pm-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:36:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLrrH-0006Nj-K2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:45779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLrrH-0006My-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:36:35 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=V4Hl6Q/p1eKa3Xbg2H9Al8FZfYP/1dsbFDK0YxVgvAA=; b=fJONBTf8vaM8I6DtAfTfY0mBs 3hJwqWS56XN5nCGepxQB+GDY3mGmf2eOO5dynM/KjLghyYmEWeNk1uL9PUjZ9J///ujt8uvxDIrtG ZR3Gl4axqC/r4kR4TzFvb4e54ZMcp/yI0cQi8TUHoyRoXVPbAx6OEgRvi3rCyvge7H/RiZ4CR5T1g gUa0feLzsoL9ZgVf8z5sevgvrlzj/46L/gvBhtsBkbKNbh3EvGvRl1W9vghfDRlsPnz8aFUjJ7xMm Up5jLdZV93ee7UdtmnNb51gtUj5i0uY3FGicT2dcX6ns1hnuZMiIv77LwvKkmid9H2/S+ProFxmGS fokGSxj6w==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-124.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.124]:44236 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1eLrrD-003Az2-UA; Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:36:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87y3mizo04.fsf@petton.fr> (Nicolas Petton's message of "Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:16:59 +0100") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 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:220689 Archived-At: Nicolas Petton writes: > Phillip Lord writes: > >> Currently, the situation is made more complex by there being two >> architectures (32/64 bit) and three choices of download (with deps, >> without, installer). That's a lot of files to choose from. Not so much >> of a problem for the snapshots, but for a full release, I think it is. > > I could improve the documentation for the Windows download options on > the downloads page at > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows > > It could for instance explain the differences between the various > download options (and maybe advice to use the 64bits w/ installer?). That's not relevant yet. The installer is on Emacs-27. It could be back-ported to Emacs-26 if we wished, but at the moment, it's not there. Phil