GNU bug report logs - #9861
Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:43:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Please include nt/INSTALL in release of Windows build from
	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:40:17 +0300

I ask same at:

  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/145483

Build 21.3 have no any INSTALL.

Build 22.3, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3 have INSTALL but have no 'nt/INSTALL'.

From INSTALL:

  This file contains general information on building GNU Emacs.
  For more information specific to the MS-Windows, GNUstep/Mac OS X, and
  MS-DOS ports, also read the files nt/INSTALL, nextstep/INSTALL, and
  msdos/INSTALL.

Usual user can not found this nt/INSTALL...

I suggest in next Emacs release add this file to

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip

And may be rename nt/INSTALL to nt/INSTALL.w32
to follow README.w32 name convention...

This can help end user by providing necessary information
to properly install and configure Emacs under Windows.

-- 
Best regards!
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