Re: windows installer

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:24:09 +0000
> Cc: jostein@kjonigsen.net, jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > IOW, Emacs is not just a GUI application used interactively, it is
> > also a program that supports batch-mode invocation, and that mode is
> > at times used by other programs.  Keeping the Emacs binary off the
> > users' system PATH is therefore less than ideal, because the users
> > will then bump into subtle problems whereby Emacs seems "unavailable".
> 
> I suspect that these sort of users will install with the zip file or
> equivalent.

If that's our solution, then this should be prominently mentioned in
the README file.  (As one of "these sort of users", I use installers
in many cases, and would not expect myself to be considered "special".
But since you are doing the work, it's your call.  I obviously have no
problems with unzipping a zip archive as the method of installing a
package.)

Anyway, in general, I see no reason why we couldn't cater to both
groups, since updating PATH is not hard, and many/most installers
offer that, at least as an option.