Re: Emacs binaries for Windows

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: Arash Esbati <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
>> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:37:47 +0100
>> 
>> > FWIW, I think it's better to have the DLLs and their sources available
>> > in separate archives, not in a single large one, because some users
>> > may wish to install only part of the libraries.  But that's me.
>> 
>> 
>> My inclination would be to provide three files.
>> 
>> 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.

Phil