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* Emacs Installer for MS Windows
@ 2004-08-02 22:17 Lennart Borgman
  2004-08-03  4:41 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 94+ messages in thread
From: Lennart Borgman @ 2004-08-02 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)


I am very new to this list, but have been visiting the archives to get some
info. I am working on an installation package for MS Windows. Nothing very
fancy, just an installation program as you get with most programs on MS
Windows. I did write down some lines on http://www.emacswiki.org/ about it,
but I did not publish anything yet. (Search for LennartBorgman there, that
seems most simple.)

I got a mail telling that Frank Schmitt may have been doing something a bit
similar a year ago, but I can't find very much about it.

I would appreciate comments and suggestions. Where could I publish it?
Thoughts about it?

Kind regards,
Lennart

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* Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows
@ 2004-08-04 21:42 Robert Anderson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 94+ messages in thread
From: Robert Anderson @ 2004-08-04 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: Lennart Borgman, Emacs Devel


--- Original Message ---
From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" <peter@runestig.com>
To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy <list@dhruva.fastmail.fm>
CC: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>, Emacs
Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows

>On 2004-08-03 06:41, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote:
>> What ever approach you/anyone writing an Installation program
for MS OS
>> takes, IMO, please make sure we do not have to have _admin_
rights to
>> install. This is a real stopper. I have found many users
giving up on
>> lot of tools due to this limitation.
>
>Why? Why should "lusers" install new software on a computer?
>
>-- 
>Peter 'Luna' Runestig (fd. Altberg), Sweden <peter@runestig.com>
>PGP Key ID: 0xD07BBE13
>Fingerprint: 7B5C 1F48 2997 C061 DE4B  42EA CB99 A35C D07B BE13
>AOL Instant Messenger Screen name: PRunestig
>Yahoo! Messenger profile name: altberg

So they can use it, perhaps?

Bob

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* RE: Emacs Installer for MS Windows
@ 2004-08-24  7:04 Berndl, Klaus
  2004-08-24 17:35 ` Steven Tamm
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 94+ messages in thread
From: Berndl, Klaus @ 2004-08-24  7:04 UTC (permalink / raw)


>> A) "c:\program files\emacs\bin\emacs.exe
>> B) "c:\program files\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe
>> C) "c:\program files\emacs\emacs\bin\emacs.exe
>> D) "c:\program files\emacs\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe
>> 
>> Which one would you prefer? What about using "c:\program files"?

>Folder names with spaces are always a nightmare in scripts. Can we avoid
>this and try to install
>directly under "C:/GNU/emacs" or "C:/GNU/emacs-21.3 ".
>IMO, many users using GNU Emacs use lot of other GNU software, having a
>top level GNU folder might help proper grouping of related tools.

Definitely not... i would really recommend using "program files" because this is THE place where windows-programs are installled for most of the users... at least this should be the default place your installer should recommend because if a user wants it at different place he is able to change this, isn't he? At least i hope so, because any installer which doesn't allow where to install the stuff is quite useless...

Klaus

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2004-08-02 22:17 Emacs Installer for MS Windows Lennart Borgman
2004-08-03  4:41 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-04 20:37   ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-04 20:55     ` David Kastrup
2004-08-05  6:51       ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-05  6:55         ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-05  7:26         ` David Kastrup
2004-08-05  8:18         ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-05 14:27           ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-06  4:17             ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-06 13:43             ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-06 13:56               ` David Kastrup
2004-08-06 17:07                 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-27 21:26                   ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-06 15:39               ` Frank Schmitt
2004-08-07 16:10               ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-23 19:21             ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-23 19:51               ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-24 18:13                 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-24 18:33                   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-24 19:31                     ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-24 19:58                       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-25  0:06                         ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25  2:51                           ` Stefan
2004-08-26 18:27                             ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 18:35                               ` David Kastrup
2004-08-26 21:00                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-26 21:41                                   ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25  4:15                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25  7:09                             ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-25 16:01                               ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25 18:24                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-26 15:17                             ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 16:09                               ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 16:21                                 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 18:34                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-26 16:29                               ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-08-26 16:58                                 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 17:40                                   ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 18:38                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-27  6:52                                       ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-08-26 18:42                                     ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 19:41                                       ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-26 22:17                                       ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27  9:22                                         ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-27 13:20                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-27 13:38                                             ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-27 15:08                                         ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27 15:24                                           ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-08-27 15:42                                           ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-28  1:36                                           ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-27 15:16                                         ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27 15:47                                           ` David Kastrup
2004-08-28  1:36                                           ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-27 15:44                                         ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27 16:14                                         ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 15:51                         ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 16:52                           ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 19:44                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-26 19:49                             ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-23 19:59               ` David Kastrup
2004-08-24  5:37               ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-24 16:33                 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-24 21:02               ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-24 21:09                 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25  4:06                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25 16:21                   ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25 18:34                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25  4:41                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-05 11:18         ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-08-05 15:33           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-04 21:09     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-04 22:12       ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-05  2:05       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-08-05  2:40         ` David Kastrup
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-04 21:42 Robert Anderson
2004-08-24  7:04 Berndl, Klaus
2004-08-24 17:35 ` Steven Tamm
2004-08-24 18:08   ` David Kastrup
2004-08-24 21:20     ` Steven Tamm
2004-08-24 21:35       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-25  1:02         ` Steven Tamm
2004-08-25  2:38           ` Stefan
2004-08-25  4:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25  7:48           ` David Kastrup
2004-08-24 21:55       ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25  0:14         ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25  0:24           ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25  4:41     ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-25  7:56       ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25 22:40         ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-25 23:03           ` David Kastrup
2004-08-26  7:04             ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-26  7:56               ` David Kastrup

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