From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:34:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvoatj7p6w.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83bnpjaipi.fsf@gnu.org
>> I mean, distribution via zip files is so painful for the user who has to
>> figure out on his own how to upgrade from one version to another, plus
>> all the dependencies, etc...
> If the package is done well, then all the dependencies are already
> bundled. And then all you need is unzip the file. How hard can that
> be?
How is that going to tell you when a bugfix release has been released?
How is that going to choose where to unzip?
How is that going to uninstall the old version?
And of course, you end up with umpteen copies of the dependencies, but
I guess only anal-retentive nit pickers will care about the wasted disk
and RAM space.
>> How do people live with that?
> I can tell you that no one ever asked me to provide the binary zips I
> upload in any other form. Which makes me think there is no problem.
In the absence of a package manager, there's of course no other form
that could be requested, indeed.
Stefan
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2014-10-09 9:43 Emacs for Windows Alexander Shukaev
2014-10-09 18:07 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-10-09 22:37 ` E Sabof
2014-10-10 1:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-10-10 2:49 ` E Sabof
2014-10-10 3:13 ` John Mastro
2014-10-10 3:32 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 12:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-10 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-10 14:16 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 16:04 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 16:20 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 16:23 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 19:13 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-19 16:40 ` Noam Postavsky
2014-10-11 15:46 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-11 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 20:14 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-10-10 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-10 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-10-10 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-10-11 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 14:44 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:25 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 16:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 17:19 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 17:38 ` David Engster
2014-10-11 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 17:58 ` David Engster
2014-10-10 15:44 ` Glenn Morris
2014-10-10 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 18:34 ` Grant Rettke
2014-10-10 18:46 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-10-11 15:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:00 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 16:18 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-11 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-11 19:40 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-12 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-12 11:53 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-12 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-12 12:13 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-10-12 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-10 20:38 ` E Sabof
2014-10-10 23:57 ` John Mastro
2014-10-11 2:05 ` E Sabof
2014-10-11 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-10-12 9:09 ` E Sabof
[not found] ` <mailman.10884.1412944630.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-11 14:55 ` Mirko
2014-10-10 2:08 ` Grant Rettke
2014-10-21 19:38 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] <mailman.10793.1412858774.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-15 4:52 ` Bug Dout
2014-10-15 13:23 ` tux-
[not found] ` <CAKu-7Wzt6kD83or9xcSgSXi3Lqsc81fpvjq6RLUGZri4oZPT1Q@mail.gmail.com>
2014-10-15 15:23 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-10-15 15:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-15 15:52 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-10-15 21:54 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.11194.1413386616.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-21 16:26 ` Jason Rumney
2014-10-21 17:58 ` John Mastro
2014-11-05 23:57 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2014-11-06 1:32 ` John Mastro
2014-11-06 1:36 ` John Mastro
2014-11-20 5:30 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
[not found] ` <mailman.14138.1416461463.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 17:27 ` Bug Dout
2014-11-30 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-06 1:56 ` Sampath Weerasinghe
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