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: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:40:34 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <007c01c4b468$10b3e500$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <874qkuxqxh.fsf@zeus.gnufans.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098031280 13393 80.91.229.6 (17 Oct 2004 16:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:41:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Jonathan Gonzalez V." 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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:28519 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28519 I got this answer from Savannah-hackers. What do you think? Should it be part of Emacs? Is the inclusion of 7-zip a problem? - Lennart PS: An URL for preview is now available, see my earlier mails. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Gonzalez V." To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows > Lennart Borgman described the package as follows: > License: lgpl > Other License: > Package: Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows > System name: emacssuw32 > Type: non-GNU > > Description: > An installation and setup program for Emacs on MS Windows. I have no URL to the > source code but can send it to you (about 500kB zipped with 7-zip). The > installation and setup program should be created in two versions, one that > includes the binary distribution of Emacs for MS Windows and one that requires > the user to download it. The installation and setup program should be possible > to rebuild from both distributions. It should also be distributed as just > source code as a zip file. > > Naturally this installation and setup program for Emacs can only run on MS > Windows. However I do believe that it will promote the use of Emacs and hope it > can fit your requirements. > > The base for this program is ready, but I plan to develop it further to make > Emacs even easier to use on MS Windows. > > Other Software Required: > This is meant for MS Windows. > > The compiled program does not have any external dependencies except that it > requires a file from 7-zip (7za.exe). This file is included with the permission > of the author of 7-zip. > > Building the program requires Inno Setup. > > Both 7-zip and Innow Setup are free software. They are found at > > * Inno Setup at Jordan Russels web site http://www.jrsoftware.org/. > * 7-zip by Ivan Pavlov at http://www.7-zip.org/. > > > Other Comments: > There have been interest on emacs developers list for an installation program > for MS Windows. I think they want it. Hi Lennart Borgman: Before to start a new project related to Emacs, did you contact the Emacs people offering your contribution ?. This is a good way to merge your work. Regards -- "Emacs the only editor which has its own church"