Re: emacs-repository-{version|branch} on Windows

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Maybe the better way forward is to tweak the code so it doesn't silence
>> this kind of error.
> Then you'd hit a much worse extremity: that the user is annoyed by
> problems most of them don't understand and don't want to know about.

Not necessarily, depends when/where we show the error.  AFAIK this code
is run while building Emacs, so emitting an error during compilation
wouldn't be too intrusive (as long as it doesn't prevent the build from
succeeding).
Or we could put the error message into those vars.


        Stefan