Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:14:47 -0400
> 
> > The advantage of what I proposed is that it also detects the cases
> > where HarfBuzz is available, but for some reason not used.
> 
> That can be useful in some cases, but I think in the present case it's
> a disadvantage: we want to know what the executable (and installed libs)
> provide, rather than what the ~/.emacs chose to use.

No, we want to know what the executable and its environment, as
provided in the bundle, will yield at run time.

I agree that it might catch some irrelevant circumstances, but that's
inevitable, at least if such simple tests are being sought.