From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: New windows builds Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87zi8fsj8n.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508946865 7602 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2017 15:54:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:54:25 +0000 (UTC) To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 17:54:19 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 1e7O0R-0000Cs-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:54:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7O0W-0005wV-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:54:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Nv4-0002bX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Nv0-0000rV-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:48:38 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:50473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e7Nv0-0000pb-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v9PFmUun009667 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:48:31 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v9PFmUZ7007353 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:48:30 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0016.oracle.com (abhmp0016.oracle.com [141.146.116.22]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v9PFmSc4009577; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:48:28 GMT In-Reply-To: <87zi8fsj8n.fsf@russet.org.uk> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4600.0 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:219761 Archived-At: > I've made some changes to the Emacs windows build packaging. I've pushed > a new snapshot build to... Comments are welcome (specifically on the pack= aging!). >=20 > Background: >=20 > As Michael has already noticed, I've updated Emacs-26 with the build > scripts that I am now using to make windows builds. This seemed like a > good idea to me; the process has evolved over the the Emacs-25 cycle but > this wasn't reflected in the Emacs repository. This seemed like a bad > idea, as there were a couple of packaging related bugs. >=20 > 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?