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: Should Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows be in Emacs CVS? Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:06:00 +0100 Message-ID: <003a01c50fc5$1f798a00$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <00af01c50ee7$68c4cf50$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108077418 23112 80.91.229.2 (10 Feb 2005 23:16:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:16:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guy@wyrdrune.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 00:16:57 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzNYG-0004Xb-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:16:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzNn5-0001un-9K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:32:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzNlJ-0001Qu-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CzNlC-0001M1-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:30:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzNlB-0001Ix-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:30:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.113] (helo=av5-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CzNOg-0000qC-H1; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:06:54 -0500 Original-Received: by av5-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id E188637E4F; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:06:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.177]) by av5-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2F637E45; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:06:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t1o58p159.telia.com [62.20.164.159]) by smtp1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 382C138024; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:06:51 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "David Kastrup" , 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33222 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33222 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" > I am no Windows expert at all. My opinion, however, would be that the > installer should be made available as soon as possible, probably in > the Emacs archive. > > However, it should be possible to let it package the latest stable > Emacs as well as the current developer version, and I think that > making the latest stable Emacs release available for use with the > installer might be a good idea, also leading to increased feedback. One of my design decisions was that the Setup Utilities should be able to do just that kind of things. It is very easy I believe to package a new version I believe. The documentation describes how to do that - I hope - if I have been unclear please ask me.