Re: Emacs binaries for Windows

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:26:00 +0100
>> 
>> >> emacs-*-bin.tar.gz -- as is now (with libnoX4)
>> >> emacs-*-libraries.tar.gz -- with binaries for libraries
>> >> emacs-*-libraries.sources.tar.gz -- with sources for the libraries
>> >
>> > No, I meant each library in a separate archive.  Again, that's just my
>> > opinion, something I do all the time on the ezwinports site.
>> 
>> Would that not be a pain to install? You have to unpack them all
>> separately? Irritating from the desktop.
>
> Not sure why this would be a pain.  Unpacking .tar.gz files is already
> a pain on Windows (which is why ezwinports uses only *.zip files,
> which can be unpacked with the Windows Explorer).  But once that
> obstacle has been negotiated, why does it matter whether one needs to
> unpack one file or a dozen?


Ah, yes, sorry would intend to distribute as a zip, not a tgz.

Phil