Re: Emacs Windows barebin distribution

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Juanma Barranquero writes:
 > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
 > 
 > > And in this case a very good measure was proposed.  And,
 > > unbelievably, it was summarily dismissed/countered in favor of
 > > reliance on the much poorer measure of emacs-devel activity.
 > > That is the argument and the attitude I spoke out against.
 > 
 > Polling users doesn't happen on its own. Someone has to spend the time
 > to do it. Removing something deemed unnecessary and waiting for anyone
 > to complain is less work.

+1  Exactly what I would have said first.

I would have added that it's also far more accurate than polling,
though it (might) involve more pain for the users.