From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:36:01 -0500 Message-ID: <87iq9riwku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <873a0yhknd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <136A0B1647B74A53A26506F872BECC6E@us.oracle.com> <83iq9rx0bk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266807090 703 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 02:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 21:01:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiuCV-0002Bc-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:37:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38383 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuCK-0002iP-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:37:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuBS-0001YF-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:36:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45840 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuBR-0001Wr-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiuBO-0003C7-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:36:04 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po35.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.83]:34227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiuBO-0003C3-EV; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014008.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.8]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po35.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o1KIa1CF026484 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5880FC05D; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:36:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83iq9rx0bk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:51:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121261 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > It's not clear what statistics you have to back this up. I know for a > fact that several users of the Windows port build Emacs themselves; > what percentage that is of the overall number of people who use the > pretest on Windows should be a subject of survey, not guesswork. > > FWIW, tools for such a build are readily available, and help for > setting them up is offered here. So I could never understand why > people who want to contribute refuse to install the necessary > development environment. It's not that setting up such a development > environment is hard or needs many hours. Anyhow, if anyone would like to volunteer to make binaries for the pretests, please step forward.