Re: emacs-20101122 windows binaries

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sean Sieger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>     I guess no debug info has been included (probably not a good idea for
>>     snapshots).
>>
>> My bad:
>>
>>  - Snapshots should or should not include debug info?
>>  - Pretests should or should not include debug info?
>
> Snapshots and Pretests are primarily for testing, so including debug
> info is essential.
>
>>  - Releases should or should not include debug info?
>
> In my experience, users complain (still in 2010) about the size of the
> binary if it changes drastically between releases. So shipping without
> debug info avoids such complaints at the expense that bugs are harder to
> debug (but most users that would be willing to debug for you will be
> using the snapshots or willing to build from source anyway).

I offer the same question as I did before: Is there any advantage of
shipping both binaries with debug info and without it? (In separate
downloads, of course.)