From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs vista build failures
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:18:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4885FA51.5030904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861w1mgdek.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that
>>>> possibility there any more?
>
> We needed a single executable for making installations and upgrades as
> simple as possible for customers (they'll break everything otherwise).
> A self-extracting batch file is doable reasonably well (once unzip.exe
> has been installed). Appending an archive to a .exe file is not as
> feasible, in contrast.
The perl script exectutable could perhaps be zipped together with any
needed archives.
> I don't think I know of any multi-platform free software project where
> the Windows port is not responsible for the most hair-tearing and
> frustration.
When I started looking at Emacs I noticed there were cross platform
installers emerging that could do quite a bit. (But do not ask me about
the names of them now.)
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2008-07-11 16:49 ` Richard M Stallman
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2008-07-11 23:33 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-12 7:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-12 16:35 ` Richard M Stallman
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2008-07-13 9:35 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-13 9:46 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-14 11:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-11 19:17 ` David Robinow
2008-07-11 20:39 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-11 20:45 ` David Robinow
2008-07-11 20:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-07-12 16:35 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-12 19:46 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-07-12 20:17 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-12 10:49 ` Bastien Guerry
2008-07-12 16:35 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-12 20:40 ` David Robinow
2008-07-12 22:47 ` Bastien
2008-07-13 19:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-13 20:44 ` Claus
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2008-07-14 8:43 ` Claus
2008-07-15 3:06 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-07-14 17:38 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-13 20:46 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-13 21:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-13 21:40 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-13 22:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-13 22:53 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-13 23:46 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-14 10:27 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-14 11:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-14 17:39 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-14 19:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-15 18:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-07-15 20:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-07-15 21:02 ` Chong Yidong
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2008-07-14 12:20 ` joakim
2008-07-14 12:32 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-15 18:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2008-07-13 23:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
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