Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Precompiled AUCTeX 11.85 for Emacs on Windows

[Ralf Angeli]

* Reiner Steib (2008-02-23) writes:

> On Sat, Feb 16 2008, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
>> I've prepared a first beta version of a precompiled version of
>> AUCTeX 11.85 for Emacs 22.1 on Windows.
>
> Nice.  I guess this will work as well with Emacs 22.2 (pretest),
> right?

This depends upon the dir file shipped with Emacs 22.2 having changed
compared to 22.1.  (I'll relabel the archive to mention 22.1 as soon as
I'll put it on ftp.gnu.org.)

> If the image DLLs won't be included in the final Emacs 22.2 for
> Windows, it would be nice if your precompiled AUCTeX package would
> include them or if you could provide an additional zip file containing
> the DLLs.

Well, you followed the discussion.  I'd be facing the same challenges as
Jason, i.e. constantly having to have an eye on security issues with the
libraries and providing updates once some of those crop up.  And I'd
rather spend my time on improving AUCTeX and RefTeX than on repackaging
image libraries.

Jason mentioned that he made Emacs capable of utilizing image libraries
installed with GTK+.  Like this you can install a bunch of image
libraries with a single package.  (This will also give you additional
stuff you'll likely never need unless you use the Gimp or some other
GTK+ application on Windows.)  Jason installed the changes on the branch
for Emacs 22.

-- 
Ralf