From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 29.0.50 Snapshot binaries for WIndows Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30650"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, eliz@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Corwin Brust Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 06:04:33 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nNSmO-0007pP-GY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 06:04:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54310 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nNSmN-0006hv-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:04:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nNSiV-0004v8-Qt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=57134 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nNSiV-0000jT-5F; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:31 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=Sd8yCsr5ZQ1KzgvP2yIharoofNKD3wivzeiR+ossUso=; b=C98agPp2+GCd t+eYAzHpjlrkPr2X8rjGYmmonIl0LVUPpKV+Clw2yG4RkndU+NO6pWRgMpW/WCfsG+D+bChwd1+jd Kp9ILqu4lRGAfiixH4jnRn1oZvwWnjH9LbUncc9RHBmxreEa4JsDql4eAoQDlfbxUDaMe2iB40E9j ecApdY7BOGs+espYaejDOIu1bKS9PysJwwCoSXk4beImYxL0FEN37PeDWkqkrRxBztS1X6jmFUWXH VlTivNOFKFFsLEpfMx9QEX/MNHjEd15shb4sbB0A54H8WkvfVE3Nngy79sdGZYOX/fBfox+0pgkGr eDyLVYaCrNJqpNyWyyRcIg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nNSiS-0006RR-Uf; Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:00:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Corwin Brust on Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:33:26 -0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286674 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > However, I have a feeling that you're focusing on the free GNU/Linux > > distros that we do or could recommend. (Please correct me if I'm > > mistaken.) If that is true, what is the situation with the most > > popular GNU/Linux distros, such as Ubuntu? > That's right. I would tend to focus on Trisequel or ARCH first. Most > very large distributions offer packaged binaries made from Emacs > development versions such as snapshots from master or pre-releases > (e.g. from the emacs-28 branch) via volunteers working on those > distros. Here is an example of a team that produces Emacs snapshot > builds for Ubuntu: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ubuntu/ppa It sounds like the popular distros are well-handled, in this. Snapshots may not be pertinent to Arch. Doesn't Arch use the approach that each user builds from source? Also, it is not a free distro The free distros Parabola, Hyperbola and Guix also use that approach, right? So maybe snapshots are not pertinent to them. I'm glad to see that there is no actual problem of the sort I was worried about. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)