Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package

[Óscar Fuentes]

address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:

> I have now trialled there and there are versions on alpha
>
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/
>
> The "emacs-27.0.50" files are built like a release build, while the
> "-snapshot" ones are built like a snapshot build.
>
> In terms of the download size, -no-deps drops from 107M to 46M which is
> the most extreme drop.

Quite a difference. I'm sure there are plenty of users all around the
world that will appreciate this change. Thank you.

BTW, seeing emacs.exe with less than 5MB gives a fuzzy feeling. Even
emacs.exe + emacs.pdmp is less than 12 MB.