From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:40:27 -0800 Message-ID: References: <873a0yhknd.fsf@stupidchicken.com><136A0B1647B74A53A26506F872BECC6E@us.oracle.com><83iq9rx0bk.fsf@gnu.org> <87iq9riwku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266806808 32121 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 02:46:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:46:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Chong Yidong'" , "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 20:46:53 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 1Niuhh-00062O-8K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:09:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuKA-0003TG-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuGa-0007mS-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:41:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34899 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuGZ-0007kj-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:41:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiuGY-0003XA-77 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:41:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:47504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiuGY-0003X6-2G; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:41:22 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o1KIfIMq029950 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:41:20 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o1KIdGuP030232; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:41:17 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt008.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 40558321266691225; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:40:25 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.179.75) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:40:25 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87iq9riwku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Thread-Index: AcqyW5G3noF2RKyTSqywAo7q65R+jAAAEoVg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4B802CCE.00AE:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:121259 Archived-At: > > 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. It sounds like you already have lots of people making Windows pretest binaries - Eli knows it for a fact, and I don't doubt it. So what's needed is not a volunteer to make a binary, but a volunteer to post a binary that s?he has already made.