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Re: Periodical releases
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Lluís |
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Re: Periodical releases |
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Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:41:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams writes:
[...]
>> I would have less of a need to build emacs manually if
>> there were more release and therefore standard emacs
>> Linux distros was more up to date.
> The problem you raise here is apparently one of the difficulty/nuisance of
> building Emacs. It is not about how often to publish releases.
> Publishing non-release MS Windows binaries periodically has been _very_
> helpful
> (thank you again to those who have created and posted the builds). At least
> on
> that platform, that is a solution to the problem you raise.
> If the same cannot be done for other platforms then the solution would be to
> somehow simplify the difficulty/nuisance of building Emacs on those platforms.
> But in no case should that difficulty/nuisance of building be an excuse for
> releasing the product before it is fully baked.
If building is the only problem, then you might like this (note: debian only):
http://emacs.naquadah.org/
Lluis
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- Re: Periodical releases, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/02
- RE: Periodical releases, Drew Adams, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, chad, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, Eric Schulte, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/02
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- RE: Periodical releases, Drew Adams, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/02
- Re: Periodical releases, Dave Abrahams, 2012/01/04
- Re: Periodical releases, Chong Yidong, 2012/01/04
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