Re: [h-e-w] emacs 25.3_1 64bit install problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: T400 <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:47:11 -0500
> 
> I am trying to move from ver 24 to 25. I have an  emacs.exe file in my 
> version 24.3 bin directory
> 
> 03/17/2013  14:52         9,055,614 emacs.exe
> 
> (working now for almost two years)
> 
> and 2 .exe files in my new version 25.3 bin directory:
> 
> 09/26/2017  16:04        99,358,230 emacs-25.3.exe
> 09/26/2017  16:04        99,358,230 emacs.exe
> 
> These were extracted using 7-zip without any problem but they seem too 
> large by a factor of 10.

The larger .exe files are not stripped of the debug info, that's why
they are so large.  Nothing to fear, when the program is loaded into
memory, the debug info is not loaded, it is only read by a debugger.

> Also the directory structure is different in this new emacs version. Is 
> this what it should look like?:

Yes.

> and can all this stuff in ~
> 01/06/2014  10:23            31,451 .emacs
> 02/10/2015  03:41               204 .newsrc
> 02/10/2015  03:41             1,020 .newsrc.eld
> 02/10/2015  03:15               913 .newsrc.eld~
> 02/10/2015  03:15               189 .newsrc~
> 02/10/2015  02:46            63,180 .nnmail-cache
> 03/14/2011  22:35             2,116 .notes
> 03/12/2011  21:32             1,164 .notes~
> 09/28/2012  11:16               692 .recentf
> 09/28/2012  08:29               692 .recentf~
> 
> remain there unchanged?

Yes, in general.  You might bump into some compatibility problems, but
they should be minor, and can be resolved by using the new/changed
features.

> p.s. Why are there two identical emacs.exe files in \bin with different 
> names?

So that, when you install the next version, the emacs.exe gets
overwritten by the newer one, but the emacs-25.3.exe does not, and you
can still invoke the older version by its versioned name, if you need
(e.g., to compare behavior of 2 versions).