From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:27:51 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091717042 16904 80.91.224.253 (5 Aug 2004 14:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 16:43:54 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BsjTE-0006K4-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:43:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsjWm-0002NK-6e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsjWc-0002NF-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsjWb-0002Mv-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsjWb-0002Ms-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.110] (helo=av3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BsjSr-0001g1-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: by av3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 154C637E5F; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:43:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.177]) by av3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0376437E5F; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:43:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t4o58p24.telia.com [195.252.57.24]) by smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 03CBF38009; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:43:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26197 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26197 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" > IMO, A user _must_ be able to install software for him/her self. In the > registry (on Windoze), there are areas not accessible to the users (or > better "lusers") and an installation trying to write into such locations > will not work with normal user rights (HKEY_CURRENT_USER and > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE). This is the only issue I can foresee which might > cause a limitation based on access rights during the proposed GNU Emacs > installation. As we do not need to do any DLL/COM service registration, > we are saved in GNU Emacs. > The one environment variable that the installer might want to modify is > PATH. This could be done under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE if the current user > is found to have access to it or modify it under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. > Infact, an option like in Cygwin installation could be made "Just for > me/For all users" during installation. I agree. Do you know exactly what privileges are required for HKLM and HKCR write? (Admin or Poweruser are those my installer chooses between.) > What installer is thought of? I have used NullSoft's installer and it > is very easy to implement. I am using Inno Setup. I have not heard of NullSoft before. Kind regards, Lennart