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Re: "Official" binary of Emacs-24.4 for MS-Windows


From: Dani Moncayo
Subject: Re: "Official" binary of Emacs-24.4 for MS-Windows
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:39:55 +0200

>> Regarding the name of the binary archive, the convention so far has
>> been "emacs-VERSION-bin-i386".  But if I eval `system-configuration'
>> from that Emacs I get `i686-pc-mingw32'.  So, perhaps we should name
>> the archive as "emacs-24.4-bin-i686", or (even better IMO),
>> "emacs-24.4-bin(i686-pc-mingw32)".  I like the latter format, because
>> it is a general and compact way of telling not only the hardware
>> architecture, but also OS flavor it was built for.  It is quite
>> self-explanatory.
>>
>> But of course the choice is yours. Which filename should I choose?
>
> I prefer emacs-24.4-i686-pc-mingw32-bin.zip.  I don't like parentheses
> in the file names, because they are special to some shells.

Ok, no parentheses.  But I think that the system configuration,
since is not part of the program version (is just a build-time
setting), should should go after "-bin", not before:

   emacs-24.4-bin-i686-pc-mingw32.zip

Do you agree?

-- 
Dani Moncayo



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