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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:41:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873745y0sd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ind1d0c5.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:56:42 +0000")

phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>>> Then it will be easier to implement something in Emacs to check for
>>>> available updates on that platform by looking at that version.
>>
>> PL> Let me know if you don't have enough.
>>
>> Anything else we can do from Emacs to help the user would be good:
>>
>> * check signature of installer (ideally without GnuPG, since installing
>>   that on W32 is not easy)
>
> Actually, that's easy since windows does this
> automatically. Unfortunately, it needs the binary to be signed. That's
> straight-forward enough, although I would need a certificate to do this,
> which isn't free (as in beer).

What kind of certificate? <https://letsencrypt.org> offers free as in
beer TLS certificates.

Robert



  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-20 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87lgjibagr.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2017-11-07 11:21 ` Windows Installer for Emacs-27 Phillip Lord
2017-11-20 19:39   ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-11-22 23:09     ` Phillip Lord
2017-12-09 20:22       ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-12-20 12:56         ` Phillip Lord
2017-12-20 13:41           ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2017-12-20 17:58             ` Phillip Lord

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