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Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch
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Po Lu |
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Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch |
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Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:53:02 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
> As the release of Emacs-28 is soon, I would like to look for someone to
> take over the role of producing windows releases.
>
> I've done this job for quite a while now, since Emacs-25, when I used to
> build the releases on windows partition that I had saved on an machine I
> use for running Kodi in my living room. Since then, it has gone virtual,
> the process has become mostly automatic, dependencies have been included
> by default and there is an exe installer.
>
> It is not a huge amount of work to just roll the releases but especially
> after the last year, it's a more than I have time for.
>
> In addition, there are a number of things that could be added: an msi or
> msix installer, support for native comp. I cannot see having the time
> for this into the foreseable future.
>
> If anyone is interested, let me know. Happy to take anyone through the
> process and provide as much support as I can.
>
> Phil
Thanks for your effort. One question though: can the builds be made
with Wine or ReactOS and an entirely free toolchain?
Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, Corwin Brust, 2021/10/03