From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:58:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po799t8f.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873745y0sd.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:41:22 +0100")
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
A microsoft coding signing one.
Phil
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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
2017-12-20 17:58 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
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