From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IZarc problem extracting emacs-24.2.tar.xz Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:03:23 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359770714 6411 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2013 02:05:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 02:05:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 02 03:05:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U1SU0-0006YM-5H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:05:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U1STh-00089N-PB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:05:13 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7c6971a18fe88f9c1c1c2e407cbd4191"; logging-data="10601"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+QVYubSqr3bZt1h1uSU8SA" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8ldAr7oBBy/op5BIv95DWgZbK6Q= sha1:yeGQsW6BY2qluCJA+9iedoQU+xs= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196621 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88913 Archived-At: >>> I noticed that some files were missing. For instance, >>> .../etc/{DOC,DOC-X} were not extracted. >> These files are not source code files or needed to build GNU Emacs so >> they are not included in the sources archive. > Your comment is correct and irrelevant. It's quite relevant: those files are not part of the tarball, so it's not a bug in IZArc that those files "are not extracted" (I still recommend you stay away from IZArc, since it is proprietary software). You can use djtarnt among many other Free Software alternatives. > Those files are needed when using Emacs; And they're created from the content of the tarball. > and few users of Emacs on Windows will want to build Emacs anyway. But I expect that most/all those who download and extract emacs-24.2.tar.xz will want to build Emacs, since there's not much else they can do with it. > There is something quite wrong with IZArc. Indeed: it is proprietary. Stefan