Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted

[phillip . lord]

On 2020-08-22 07:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:37:12 +0100
> > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > > Also, shouldn't it be in admin/nt?  It's w32-specific, right?  What is
> > > the rationale for having it in lisp/ ?
> >
> > Because I want to be able to unpack a windows distribution and run the
> > function.
>
> OK, but then, as long as it's w32-specific, it should go into
> w32fns.el or something.

Okay. I will add lisp/w32-feature.el (I don't want to add it to 
w32-fns.el as this would force loading of ert). I won't add a command so 
that no one will run it by mistake, but will add an autoloaded function.


> OTOH, if we want this as a general-purpose feature (along the lines
> proposed by Stefan), then yes, something like lisp/feature.el should
> be appropriate.

That might be useful for others who maintain binary distributions of 
Emacs, but I don't know what they would need or want. So, I'll add 
w32-feature.el to Emacs-27. If we need something more generic, I'd be 
happy to migrate to that.

Phil