Re: New windows builds

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> The new scripts automate both the build of the Emacs zip files
>> themselves and the "dependencies" binaries and source zip files. I've
>> added one new feature (already mentioned) which is the ability to build
>> a snapshot from an arbitrary branch.
>
> Thanks. Do I understand correctly that the result of this build
> is expected to be the same as the result of the previous build,
> and that the only difference is that you now use a different
> build procedure (e.g., different scripts)?  IOW, should users
> expect any difference in the resulting builds?


There weren't any scripts before, I just ran through the instructions in
an .org file. Surprised it too me so long to get irritated with this.

But, as it's a new release, I have also change the packaging somewhat,
both from Emacs-25, and also from Emacs-26.0.90. The "default" one
(i.e. one with the shortest name) now contains all the dependencies;
that is, you don't have to unzip the deps file over the top of an
installation for yourself. The "-no-deps" version is the same as the
Emacs-25 releases.

The new files are described in
admin/nt/dist-build/README-windows-binaries.

Phil