Re: FOR-RELEASE.W32

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> These issues are being overblown. There are currently W32 specific 
> issues worthy of delaying a release, of Emacs in general, or of W32 
> binaries. If there are issues worthy of delaying release, then they 
> belong in FOR-RELEASE. If they are not worthy of delaying release, 
> then they should be in a TODO file somewhere (a general one, or W32 
> specific depending on the general consensus). Lets not pretend that 
> there is an in between state of FOR-RELEASE.W32.

If we can not make a full release on w32 is there not an "in between 
state" then? But I suppose you want to be pragmathic about this. I guess 
I want that too. What I want is that the state of things on w32 should 
be visible so it does not confuse new or even old users or developers. 
Having a workaround is not bad (even if it is not the best).

TODO is in the etc subdir. Does not that make it much less visible than 
admin? Also it does not really seem to contain things for release. I 
still think FOR-RELEASE.W32 is a good and simple name. However if we 
think that is to strong and TODO is too weak then we could try something 
else, but let it be visible! That shows we care and that attracts users.