From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:54:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva6yjyixh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868se3gaec.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:35:07 -0700")
>>> No, we want to know what the executable and its environment, as
>>> provided in the bundle, will yield at run time.
>>>
>>> I agree that it might catch some irrelevant circumstances, but that's
>>> inevitable, at least if such simple tests are being sought.
>>
>> Then I guess we disagree on the purpose.
>>
>> For me, the purpose of such a list of features is to help the user
>> figure out whether a given problem comes from their config or from the
>> Emacs build itself.
>
> Run it once with -Q, once with ~/.emacs.
Yes, there are a million ways to diagnose problems. None of them work
in all cases, and none of them are ever the only possible approach.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-24 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-18 2:05 Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted Jonathan Mitchell
2020-08-18 4:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 6:56 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-18 7:11 ` Jonathan Mitchell
2020-08-18 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 15:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-08-18 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 16:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2020-08-18 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-19 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-19 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-19 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 17:20 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-18 18:11 ` Daniel Brooks
2020-08-18 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-18 19:54 ` Daniel Brooks
2020-08-18 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 19:16 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-21 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 21:37 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-21 22:53 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-22 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 10:30 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-24 9:28 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-24 10:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 12:11 ` Robert Pluim
2020-08-24 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24 17:06 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-24 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-24 18:35 ` Stephen Leake
2020-08-24 18:54 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-08-24 17:01 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-21 20:15 ` Alan Third
2020-08-21 21:56 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 10:21 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 10:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 10:53 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 12:52 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 13:53 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 15:13 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 17:28 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 20:18 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-22 20:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-23 21:19 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-23 21:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-23 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 7:53 ` phillip.lord
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-08-10 23:00 Emacs 27.1 released Nicolas Petton
2020-08-12 12:01 ` phillip.lord
2020-08-15 17:49 ` Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted phillip.lord
2020-08-15 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-15 18:38 ` Stephen Leake
2020-08-15 19:57 ` Alan Third
2020-08-17 4:44 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2020-08-17 23:24 ` Tak Kunihiro
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