Re: Emacs for Windows?

[Jason Rumney]

Ramprasad B wrote:
> --- Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:
>
>   
> > The latest version uploaded are now 2006-02-01 for the patched version 
> > and 2006-01-31 for the unpatched version.
> >     
I haven't seen the context of the above, but I assume it is talking 
about unofficial CVS snapshots.

> But, what about ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ ?
>   
> Why are the timestamps of files are still */*/2004 ?
> Is there any other place where native emacs and emacs w32 is being placed ?
> For native emacs - emacs-21.4a.tar.gz, it is 2/17/2005 ?
>   
The latest Windows binaries are 21.3. No binaries were released for 21.4 
or 21.4a
> Why is this happening?
>   
Because fixes for compiling on Windows with modern versions of 
gcc/mingw32 that were in the Emacs 21 branch of CVS did not make it into 
the 21.4 releases.