Subject: Re: bug#14762: 24.3.50; hurdles getting Emacs to show images on MS Windows
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 12:31:48 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:32:02 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:32:59 -0800
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> > 
> > Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:
> > 
> > > 4. Better - much better - would be to include image support in GNU Emacs
> > > out of the box.  On MS Windows.  And that is what users, especially new
> > > users, EXPECT, and SHOULD expect.
> > 
> > Doesn't the Emacs Windows builds come with all the appropriate DLLs
> > these days?
> 
> No.  The binary was compiled against those DLLs, but the DLLs
> themselves need to be downloaded and installed by the end users.

I have now fixed the remaining issues raised by this bug report, with
the exception of one:

> 4. Better - much better - would be to include image support in GNU Emacs
> out of the box.  On MS Windows.  And that is what users, especially new
> users, EXPECT, and SHOULD expect.

This is up to the person(s) who produce and upload the Windows binary
distributions.  FWIW, Jason Rumney, who did that in the past,
explained his reasons not to include optional libraries here:

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4367#75

I'm therefore closing this bug report; if the fact that binary
distributions on ftp.gnu.org do not include image libraries is still
considered a problem worthy of a bug report, please submit a separate
report for it, as this is no longer a development issue.

Thanks.