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Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs 24.3 windows binaries are available
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:00:28 +0200

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:00:06 -0400
> 
> > The above is actually common knowledge for Windows users, 
> 
> No, it's only common knowledge among Windows developers. My mother is a
> typical Windows user; she has _no_ idea what a dll is, nor what to do
> with it.
> 
> But we are discussing users of Emacs on Windows, which is a tiny subset
> of Windows users. I don't know what a typical Emacs user (Windows or
> otherwise) knows about shared libraries in general, but there's no harm
> in assuming they know nothing.
> 
> In installation instructions, it is certainly appropriate to state
> something like:
>     
>     unzip the archive, place the resulting .../bin in PATH

Thanks.  I took the advice and updated the README there with some
simple installation instructions.



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