From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:34:15 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4654BBC8.7010201@gmail.com> <4654CC27.3000908@gmail.com> <87odkbunni.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4654CF9B.40309@gmail.com> <4654D337.8070602@gnu.org> <4654D44C.2000303@gmail.com> <4654D643.70107@gnu.org> <4654D8EC.5080802@gmail.com> <86odkabtlb.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <465563EB.9070400@gmail.com> <46556937.7080701@gnu.org> <46556A66.6020901@gmail.com> <465573FB.3010406@gmail.com> <465576A3.40305@gnu.org> <4655791E.9090502@gmail.com> <46557EB6.1000408@gnu.org> <86zm3u8ltu.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86r6p68gz8.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86myzu8fm3.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180031681 25697 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 18:34:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 20:34:31 2007 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 4.50) id 1HrI8n-0007Hu-08 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 20:34:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrI8p-0004Hp-NM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:34:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrI8m-0004Hk-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrI8k-0004HY-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrI8k-0004HV-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrI8j-0005sf-4o; Thu, 24 May 2007 14:34:21 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-125-125.inter.net.il [84.229.125.125]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HXH59017 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 24 May 2007 21:34:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86myzu8fm3.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 24 May 2007 16:23:48 +0200) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (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:71765 Archived-At: > Cc: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:23:48 +0200 > > >> >> Supplying pretest binaries would offer some reassurance that the > >> >> process of building the binaries will not introduce problems that may > >> >> not be apparent on other systems building those by themselves. > >> > > >> > This is no different from other platforms, including GNU/Linux. > >> > >> We don't offer binaries for those. > > > > The various GNU/Linux distributions do. > > How would that be relevant for us? We need to pretest the things _we_ > will put on our servers for the release. That is the source tarball, > and binaries for Windows. The Windows binaries are no more produced by ``us'' than the various GNU/Linux binaries. The GNU Project distributes only sources, AFAIK. The fact that GNU lends disk space on its FTP servers for volunteers to upload Windows binaries does not change anything in principle.