Re: Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:47:24 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:55:30 -0800
> > 
> > > The Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries have been published in
> > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
> > > 
> > > The binaries were built using the following libraries:
> > > giflib-4.1.4-1
> > > gnutls-3.0.9
> > > jpeg-6b-4
> > > libXpm-3.5.8
> > > libpng-1.4.3-1
> > > tiff-3.8.2-1
> > > zlib-1.2.5-2
> > > 
> > > Pre-built Windows binaries for GnuTLS are available at this location:
> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
> > 
> > Can you say what that means?  What is GnuTLS for, and why might an Emacs 
> > user
> > want to obtain a binary for it?  How does it relate to Emacs?
> 
> It's an email authentication package.  See the node "Authentication"
> in the smtpmail manual that comes with Emacs.

See also a short note in etc/NEWS (which is more Lisp programmer
oriented).