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On 1/23/2016 6:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> This is a rebuild of the 24.5-2 packages, patched to allow native
> Windows paths like C:\foo or C:/foo in situations where file names are
> expected.

For the sake of the archives, I'm announcing here that I consider this 
experimental release to be a failure[*].  I won't be including the patch 
in the upcoming release of emacs-25.1.

Ken

[*] It only allows Win32 paths in a few situations.  For example, they 
can't be used as arguments to 'C-x d'.  Extensive changes to the emacs 
code would be required in order to allow them everywhere, and I don't 
think it's worth the trouble or the risk of breaking something.


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