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bug#20113: windows binary contains two identical executables
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#20113: windows binary contains two identical executables |
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Date: |
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:37:11 -0400 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Yes. It's a feature: it allows you to later override emacs.exe with a
> newer version, but keep the other one for reference, if you need it.
I wonder if this is worth it on MS Windows.
IIUC, install does not install the binaries to a single /usr/local/bin
equivalent, instead each Emacs version lives under an entirely separate
top-level directory? So is anyone really likely to just replace one of
those binaries within that tree?
> Ideally, they should be hard links to the same data, but AFAIK zip
> files on Windows don't support hard links.
What about symbolic?
But really it sounds like it's not worth having two versions on MS
Windows.