> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:47:24 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> > Cc: cschol2...@googlemail.com, help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, emacs-de...@gnu.org > > > From: "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> > > Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:55:30 -0800 > > > > > The Emacs 24.0.93 Pretest Windows Binaries have been published in > > > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/ > > > > > > The binaries were built using the following libraries: > > > giflib-4.1.4-1 > > > gnutls-3.0.9 > > > jpeg-6b-4 > > > libXpm-3.5.8 > > > libpng-1.4.3-1 > > > tiff-3.8.2-1 > > > zlib-1.2.5-2 > > > > > > Pre-built Windows binaries for GnuTLS are available at this location: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ > > > > Can you say what that means? What is GnuTLS for, and why might an Emacs > > user > > want to obtain a binary for it? How does it relate to Emacs? > > It's an email authentication package. See the node "Authentication" > in the smtpmail manual that comes with Emacs.
See also a short note in etc/NEWS (which is more Lisp programmer oriented).
