As a (part time) Windows-user I'd very much appreciate this.

Like I've mentioned earlier on this mailing-list, I have some custom
scripts I use to manually assemble a new release when it's available,
but even then it's so much of a hastle that I can't always be bothered.
Having an installer which makes this a next-next-next process would
be a great
But I'm already on the train. Where this would clearly be most
benefitial is for new Windows/Emacs-users if they could get going in
the usual "next next next" Windows-fashion which they're already
accustomed to.
Feel free to publish some test-installers for the community to try out.
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Jostein Kjønigsen

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On Fri, Oct 27, 2017, at 12:11 AM, Phillip Lord wrote:
> 
> I've had a quick play and created an "installer" version of Emacs for> windows. Cheesy and ugly at the moment, but it works. It uses the NSIS> toolkit which is nicely packaged for msys2.
> 
> NSIS is free software, albeit the non GPL compatible CPL
> (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/License). I don't believe this is
> a problem> as it would only be a packager. I'd welcome more informed
> opinion about> whether this is appropriate for Emacs.
> 
> Probably too late to put this onto Emacs-26 now I fear, but it
> could be> ready in time for Emacs-27. If any one is interested, I can
> uploaded it> to the pre-test website (as the Emacs source is already there).
> 
> As with the new zips I've created, this does raise questions about
> release of updates to the binaries. This installer will contain (lots> of) other dependency files. My current plan is to freeze the
> dependencies during pre-test. But this means, that these dependencies> will get old during the Emacs release cycle.
> 
> Anyway, thought's welcome.
> 
> Phil
>