From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Next pretest, and branching plans Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:54:37 +0100 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266808053 4773 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 03:07:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:07:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , sdl.web@gmail.com, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 21:53:49 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 1Niuhc-00062O-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:09:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuTt-0003Jw-OG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:55:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuTm-0003HH-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36456 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiuTl-0003Fl-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiuTk-0005Ia-Qa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com ([209.85.220.222]:52603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiuTk-0005IE-ES; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so1208405fxm.26 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:54:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=lpoCAJcCfAkHKJH2XMsbbpZDUUZsdQ0wkQ6fjtRUnf4=; b=Q8VtfvWDroDvQY4mTApewB5iss9+tA+5hMuidVuSgnUfVI/R9FIB+DDRi1lL3wJLIw A5RuxwAKnc8ojKC08UjLTRpIirAUT1BwI15ZmvdKQFx0SjjZJAslS2a8ZnHrdOZQ5ll+ xC2pIeBZWqr4dzGFZGiBNc//q/uBJmBvOdJx8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BbxSy9ui533sP2bruZzclOje68Xx+zq8vyg/9G9QIulr9dDhC4S1Zqxg9QVTaMOXNh WQCu+4I/ZradTUOUZTvewlgLsfd5rOm9O0SW0E4iJYgwnSFLDJ8lmudGwhdHg7DxC3O2 CaNdDxHvYpzzLYX1H05iIUqh+x2gPEAkErfsg= Original-Received: by 10.239.183.147 with SMTP id u19mr1431176hbg.106.1266692097381; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:54:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87iq9riwku.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:121266 Archived-At: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Chong Yidong wrote= : > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> It's not clear what statistics you have to back this up. =C2=A0I know fo= r 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. =C2=A0So I could never understand why >> people who want to contribute refuse to install the necessary >> development environment. =C2=A0It's not that setting up such a developme= nt >> environment is hard or needs many hours. > > Anyhow, if anyone would like to volunteer to make binaries for the > pretests, please step forward. I have not made binaries for the pretest, but since I noticed the request for newer (unpatched) binaries I have uploaded this today to http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl