From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: angeli@caeruleus.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Image DLLs for the Windows binary of Emacs 22.2
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:56:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <usl00pova.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c86c1b$2a88e2f0$2958908d@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:28:50 -0800
> Cc:
>
> > > Any comments or a decision about the other image DLLs?
> >
> > I'd also like to see them included. Emacs on Windows
> > currently is like a building kit and users don't particularly
> > like this. Following the AUCTeX release today we already had
> > a user who rather wants to keep his old installation instead
> > of getting the official Emacs 22 package because putting
> > everything together was too time consuming for him.
>
> FWIW, I second everything Ralf said.
>
>
> FWIW2 - On MS Windows, users are used to just downloading and clicking a
> couple times to install an app. Lennart's EmacsW32 provides that - great.
> But AFAIK, users need to fiddle a bit to not include Lennart's enhancements.
Volunteers are welcome to come on board and help Jason in packaging
and testing binary distributions of the Windows port.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-30 22:43 Pretest 22.1.90 Chong Yidong
2008-01-30 23:42 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-30 23:48 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-31 0:46 ` Chong Yidong
2008-01-31 0:41 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-31 18:51 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-31 0:59 ` Jason Rumney
2008-01-31 19:55 ` Image DLLs for the Windows binary of Emacs 22.2 (was: Pretest 22.1.90) Reiner Steib
2008-02-10 14:16 ` Image DLLs for the Windows binary of Emacs 22.2 Reiner Steib
2008-02-10 18:58 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-10 19:28 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-10 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-02-10 20:17 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-10 21:39 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-10 21:55 ` Ralf Angeli
2008-02-10 21:31 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-10 21:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-02-11 15:56 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-10 22:24 ` Reiner Steib
2008-02-10 22:38 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-10 22:53 ` Reiner Steib
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