Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Phillip Lord]

"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

>> Why?  The Emacs installation tree is designed to accommodate more than
>> a single Emacs version simultaneously.  Using versioned directories
>> would mean users need to tweak their PATH each time they install a new
>> version, which is undesirable and unnecessary.
>
> Stupid me, I meant Emacs' release numbers not "version" numbers!
>
> At the moment Emacs will be installed per default into
>
> c:\
>   |- Program Files\
>      |- Emacs
>
> If you intent to install another Emacs release and forget to change the
> installation directory "Emacs" then - without warning - the new release
> will be installed over the old one.  Is this supposed to work for major
> release numbers?
>
> Wouldn't it be better to install Emacs in a tree with the release
> numbers?
>
> c:\
>   |- Program Files\
>      |- Emacs-27.1
>      |- Emacs-27.2
>      |- Emacs-28.0.91


This is the NSIS installer I wrote? It should include a version number,
but I think with a common top level directory (I can't test it at the
moment).

Phil