GNU bug report logs - #71801
emacs 29.4 windows binaries

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Message #50 received at 71801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "tclwarrior <at> gmail.com" <tclwarrior <at> gmail.com>,
 "corwin <at> bru.st" <corwin <at> bru.st>,
 "71801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <71801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: bug#71801: emacs 29.4 windows binaries
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 16:33:30 +0000

> If the user is the one who set up the
> development and run-time environment, then the user should fix it to
> be fully operable.  If the user just installed a binary distro, he/she
> should take this up to whoever produced the distro.
...
> It is a problem with the Emacs installation.  Who should fix it
> depends on how and by whom Emacs was built and installed.  Emacs
> itself cannot know that.
...
> Users who don't understand the warning will do what they always do:
> search the Internet or ask on known forums.
...
> > I don't understand the message, and it sounds
> > like someone needs to know something about
> > Emacs builds, its dependencies, and perhaps
> > native compilation.
> 
> That's okay.  Some warnings will invariably left not understood by
> some of the users, especially if they (users) lack background
> knowledge about what happens in that case.  The usual remedy is to
> ask.

Thank you for the more complete explanation.

Since there's no way for Emacs to know whether
the user seeing such a warning is one kind or
the other, consider including info such as this
in the warning (or linked from it, if it needs
to be a one-liner):

  There's a problem with this Emacs installation.
  If you installed a binary distro then please
  report it to whoever produced the distro.

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