RE: Emacs 28 pretest MS Windows snapshots

[Drew Adams]

Thanks for your quick reply, Phil.  And thanks especially
for creating the snapshots.

> I just updated the dependencies for Emacs-27 and -28 to include jansson
> which has been missed off, so this may have changed things.
> 
> It should have giflib, libjpeg, libpng included. If that doesn't work,
> then it's broken. But I don't know what you mean "usuable with the usual
> image-handling dlls I've had for years". Do you mean, you are using DLLs
> that are already on your machine?

Yes, I've had the basic image-processing stuff on my machine
for years now.  I may not have the latest - I did that quite
a while ago.  For at least some older Emacs releases that was
sufficient.  It may no longer be.

For a while I've been downloading the snaps with dependencies,
but this time I thought I might try the snap without them, to
save some space.

(Anyway, I've now grapped the snap with dependencies.)

> The deps file didn't upload. Not uncommon, the GNU upload process is
> horrible. They should be there soon, hopefully.
> 
> The installer version including all the dependencies is the smallest
> package.

I don't want to "install" Emacs, if that means doing something
more than just putting it into a folder.  I want to have
multiple Emacs versions, in different folders.  I just use the
executables that are in their bin folders.

> > The README-* file also has hard-coded "emacs-27" in place of emacs-$VERSION
> in two places.
> 
> The fix for this is also uploading.

Thx.