Re: tarball builds

[Paul Eggert]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have the impression that the same holds for Mac OS X and for Windows

I don't use either OS, but I do still use Solaris 10 and the default installs on 
Solaris 10 (which is still shipping!) lack many developer tools like Autoconf.

I expect you're right that an "install from Git" approach would work for major 
distributors like Debian, or for Emacs developers. It's not so clear that it 
would work as well for people who want to install Emacs themselves because they 
want to try Emacs out on a less-common platform, or they want to use the latest 
version of Emacs when their distribution has an earlier version.