Re: emacs-26 3fc05cf: Scripts to automate windows binary distribution

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:16:59 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > I started off writing this in bash, but it's such a pain that I ported
> > it to python which ended up much nicer. Given that this file has about a
> > 15-20 minute run time, this seemed a useful thing to me. As it happens
> > it was also easy to make it go quicker which is important because it
> > means that I can do the build in the evening, rather than over two
> > evenings.
> 
> If it were me, I would have taken Perl, I don't speak Python. Other
> people would prefer Guile.
> 
> Before we continue with this, I would like to see a general
> agreement. Or at least a go by the maintainers.

FWIW, I think the preferred scripting tool in the Emacs project should
be Emacs itself.  But that's me.

I don't see a problem to have scripts in Python under admin/.  That
stuff is not for the users, it's mainly for Emacs maintainers, so the
tools it requires are less important.