Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "corwin@bru.st" <corwin@bru.st>,
>         "dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de"
>       <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>,
>         "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 08:51:11 +0000
> 
> > > > IMO, no.  It's a feature:  when we specify an extension we get exactly
> > > > what we ask for, when we specify without any extension we get the
> > > > default behavior of favoring the most compiled version available,
> > > > creating the ELN if we can when we have an ELC but no ELN.
> > >
> > > Isn't that what's happening?  It tries to load the ELC.
> > 
> > Happening where?
> 
> In the problem I reported.  I thought Corwin was
> suggesting that it didn't try to load the ELC
> and then compile it to ELN.

In the problem you reported here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-02/msg00160.html

indeed Emacs didn't try to compile the .elc file to a .eln.

Like I said: yours was a different situation, not the one about which
Dieter asked his question.