Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk]

On 2020-08-22 16:19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:13:52 +0100
>> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > Skipping a test and failing a test is not the same.  You are looking
>> > for failures: tests that should have succeeded, but didn't.
>> 
>> Indeed not. But, skipping a test because something is not compiled in 
>> is
>> wrong iff the feature is supposed to be compiled in. Running "make
>> check" on my windows build machine will only pick up errors with json
>> parsing if libjansson was installed.
> 
> That's a separate problem.  If you want to be able to detect it as
> well, you'd probably need a separate test for features that appear in
> system-configuration-features.
> 
>> I still think that the windows binary distribution is unnecessarily
>> complicated, based on the msys2 dependencies as given.
> 
> I agree, but if you want to depend on MSYS2 dependency tracking,
> that's part of the price, no?

Yes. And I am happy to experiment with alternatives. But I want 
something to be able to test the binary distributions that the 
alternatives would produce.

So where are we up to? w32-features.el? In lisp/ or etc/

Phil