Re: [emacs-announce] Emacs pretest 26.0.90 is out

[Phillip Lord]

Drew Adams <address@hidden> writes:

>> > What _are_ those *-deps zip files?
>> > What does "deps" stand for?
>> 
>> Your questions are answered here:
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-
>> 3A__alpha.gnu.org_gnu_emacs_pretest_windows_README-2Demacs26-
>> 2Dpretests&d=DwIBaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PQcxBKCX5YTpkKY057SbK10&r=qZLZo
>> sY6GBAaJtOG9v8QX7nD4BS9t9s5otgxC3d4IFU&m=id_9at6z1Pc2fkgBNw2Cix0Z8WJQiDBp
>> 1mIa-xBFENs&s=oEcXByM_Hjss9Nt7qtjlb6wOmCuCjW67KCThPjGZWbQ&e=
>
> Got it.  And now they are (indirectly) answered in
> this announcement thread too.  Thank you.
>
> (Except that "the dependencies" is defined nowhere.
> You have to guess what might be meant by that.)


Yes, this is true.

My plan for the next pre-test is to turn these around. So
"emacs-$version.zip" will contain all the dependencies while
"emacs-$version-no-deps.zip" will not. Then people who don't know what
to choose will get bells and whistles by default.

It would be quite nice to add a "runemacs.bat" file at top level also, I
think, but it's probably too late in the release cycle for this.

Phil