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authorJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2009-02-01 14:32:05 +0000
committerJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2009-02-01 14:32:05 +0000
commita3992354504b3b25b3f1ece6ec2ba5232989f3de (patch)
tree8d750fa1b25f0dd822b7462f993db67d038d6557
parent7112648c53d4cba8b45be9323b5429927feba8d5 (diff)
downloademacs-a3992354504b3b25b3f1ece6ec2ba5232989f3de.tar.gz
Update for 23.1 pretest
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@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
Precompiled Distributions of
Emacs for Windows
- Version 22.3
+ Version 23.0.90
- September 7, 2008
+ February 1, 2009
- This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs
- on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Windows 95/98/Me. This port is a
- part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the Free Software
- Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided here for
- convenience since the majority of Windows users are not accustomed
- to compiling programs themselves. Corresponding source can be found
- in the parent directory in emacs-22.3.tar.gz.
+ This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on
+ Windows (versions before Windows 95 and NT4 are not supported).
+ This port is a part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the
+ Free Software Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided
+ here for convenience since the majority of Windows users are not
+ accustomed to compiling programs themselves. Corresponding source
+ can be found in the parent directory in emacs-23.0.90.tar.gz.
If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
your favorite web browser to the following document (if you haven't
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL. For instance,
- if you put the emacs-22.3-bin-i386.tar.gz file from this directory on
+ if you put the emacs-23.0.90-bin-i386.tar.gz file from this directory on
an Internet site, you must arrange to distribute the source files of
- the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-22.3.tar.gz).
+ the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-23.0.90.tar.gz).
Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we
might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
* Files in this directory
- + emacs-22.3-bin-i386.zip
- Windows binaries of Emacs-22.3, with all lisp code and documentation
+ + emacs-23.0.90-bin-i386.zip
+ Windows binaries of Emacs-23.0.90, with all lisp code and documentation
included.
Download this file if you want a single installation package, and
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
If you need the C source code at a later date, it will be safe to
unpack the source distribution on top of this installation.
- + emacs-22.3-barebin-i386.zip
- Windows binaries of Emacs-22.3, without lisp code or documentation.
+ + emacs-23.0.90-barebin-i386.zip
+ Windows binaries of Emacs-23.0.90, without lisp code or documentation.
Download this file if you already have the source distribution, or
if you need to redump the emacs.exe executable.
@@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
a basic Makefile for compiling with mingw32 and a .def file for
generating a DLL with the appropriate exports in addition to the
source code to provide the subset of functionality Emacs uses from
- libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-22.3-bin-i386.zip
- and emacs-22.3-barebin-i386.zip.
+ libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-23.0.90-bin-i386.zip
+ and emacs-23.0.90-barebin-i386.zip.
* Image support
- Emacs 22.3 contains support for images, however for most image formats
+ Emacs 23.0.90 contains support for images, however for most image formats
supporting libraries are required. This distribution has been tested
with the libraries that are distributed with GTK for Windows, and the
libraries found at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. The following image
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
called giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
+ SVG: not compiled into the binary release, but available if you
+ compile Emacs yourself if you have development packages for all the
+ dependencies. Requires many libraries from GTK and Gnome
+ as well as the base librsvg library. Known to crash Emacs on many
+ sample images.
+
* Distributions in .tar.gz and .zip format
Emacs is distributed primarily as source code in a large gzipped tar
@@ -224,9 +230,8 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
This document serves as an FAQ and a source for further information
about the Windows port and related software packages. Note that as
- of writing, most of the information in that FAQ was for Emacs-21.3
- and earlier versions, so some information may not be relevant to
- Emacs-22.3.
+ most of the information in that FAQ is for earlier versions, so some
+ information may not be relevant to Emacs-23.0.90.
In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the