Re: [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> >> 4) Currently, native-comp is an "--with-nativecomp" option even on the
>> >> native-comp branch. It is likely to be merged this way to master?
>> >
>> > Yes, I think so.
>> 
>> Are you worried about stability or newness? I guess it will become the
>> default at some point. It seems to have few disadvantages, other than
>> hammering the CPU at bit at initial start up.
>
> Usually, such radical features start as optional, but maybe we will
> decide otherwise.
>
> Why does it matter?

I'd like to keep the Windows package using the default options as far as
possible, mostly because I am lazy and because it means that the windows
package updates when ever the defaults do.

Currently, we have

--without-dbus --without-compress-install

The latter is so the documentation works without gzip. The latter is
because we don't normally have dbus available. I am not sure why either
of these needed (i.e. why they are not the default on windows).

Adding --with-nativecomp isn't massively problematic, but would need
removing when and if it becomes default. Not a big problem, the less
difference between the windows package and the defaults, the happier I
would be.

Phil