Re: windows installer

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:01:21 +0000
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> Does Emacs still store the build machine anywhere in the binaries that
>> it produces?
>
> See emacs-build-system.
>
>> Currently, the windows build machine is on my own private network,
>> but if I shift it to the cloud, it's going to be with public IP; it
>> makes no sense to advertise this.
>
> If you remove that, how will we know from the bug report that the
> binary they used is the one we distribute from the GNU site?  It's an
> important piece of information when looking into a bug.

For this, you just need a name which is reasonably likely to be
unique. In fact, for the Emacs-25 series binaries emacs-build-system is
set to simply to a proper name which is not resolvable or otherwise
identifiable.

If I use a cloud service, it will be a different and incomprehensible
string. I don't know if the system name allows identification of the
public IP or not; if it does, it's unfortunate.


Phil