Re: Emacs 27.1 Windows Binaries -- testing wanted

[Daniel Brooks]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 11:11:19 -0700
>> 
>> If you'd like inspiration, Firefox does a pretty decent job at this;
>> just visit about:buildconfig to see.
>
> We have system-configuration-features, which shows the equivalent
> info.

And system-configuration-options, though as far as I know there's no git
commit hash.

> But this isn't Phillip's problem: the problem here is that the Windows
> build of Emacs tries to load the optional libraries when they are
> first required, and if the load fails, the corresponding feature will
> behave as not available, even though Emacs was built to support that
> feature.

That is a fun wrinkle, and I hadn't understood it. Sounds like his
report will be more like Firefox's about:support than about:buildconfig.

db48x