As usual I forgot to make my point. I assume that the best way to get the release from a .0 to a .1 or .4 or whatever is to get people who did not develop the code to run it. This way the code gets exercised and abused and bug reports get generated. (I find that users do such unexpected things to my code that they are indispensable to my beta testing.) If you want people who are not XEmacs developers to use it and test it you probably need binaries in the Windows world. Most people who mess with free software do so on UNIX. Many may run windows but do not want to own Microsoft's compilers. On UNIX I'd say it's fine to expect people on the early releases to compile their own. Most UNIX's come with an acceptable "c" compiler. Windows does not.