Re: Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries published

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:55:30 -0800
> 
> > The Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries have been published in
> > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
> > 
> > The binaries were built using the following libraries:
> > giflib-4.1.4-1
> > gnutls-3.0.9
> > jpeg-6b-4
> > libXpm-3.5.8
> > libpng-1.4.3-1
> > tiff-3.8.2-1
> > zlib-1.2.5-2
> > 
> > Pre-built Windows binaries for GnuTLS are available at this location:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
> 
> Can you say what that means?  What is GnuTLS for, and why might an Emacs user
> want to obtain a binary for it?  How does it relate to Emacs?

It's an email authentication package.  See the node "Authentication"
in the smtpmail manual that comes with Emacs.