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RE: New windows builds


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: New windows builds
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:48:25 -0700 (PDT)

> I've made some changes to the Emacs windows build packaging. I've pushed
> a new snapshot build to... Comments are welcome (specifically on the 
> packaging!).
> 
> Background:
> 
> As Michael has already noticed, I've updated Emacs-26 with the build
> scripts that I am now using to make windows builds. This seemed like a
> good idea to me; the process has evolved over the the Emacs-25 cycle but
> this wasn't reflected in the Emacs repository. This seemed like a bad
> idea, as there were a couple of packaging related bugs.
> 
> The new scripts automate both the build of the Emacs zip files
> themselves and the "dependencies" binaries and source zip files. I've
> added one new feature (already mentioned) which is the ability to build
> a snapshot from an arbitrary branch.

Thanks. Do I understand correctly that the result of this build
is expected to be the same as the result of the previous build,
and that the only difference is that you now use a different
build procedure (e.g., different scripts)?  IOW, should users
expect any difference in the resulting builds?



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