Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows

Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows

[Lennart Borgman]

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." <jonathan@blueplanet.cl>
To: <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: <savannah-hackers@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Emacs Setup Utilities for MS
Windows

> Lennart Borgman <address@bogus.example.com> 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"