Re: emacs-26 3fc05cf: Scripts to automate windows binary distribution

[Phillip Lord]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Likely I've missed the discussion, but do we want to distribute Python
>> scripts with Emacs?
>
> FWIW, I don't see anything wrong with that in general.
>
> I'd rather avoid the use of Python as a requirement for building Emacs
> (not because of Python itself, but so as to avoid adding
> yet-another-build-dependency), but IIUC the above script is not needed to
> build Emacs, so it's OK.

This is entirely correct. It's doing the equivalent of "make-dist".

Phil