From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:28:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87r2a0czie.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="79038"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 19:29:07 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGoMs-000KLb-Ph for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 19:29:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57082 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGoMr-0007h3-NT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35517) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGoMG-0007gl-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGoMF-0004aK-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:46310) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGoME-0004ZD-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:28:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=3oJsSKu36/GVYBpYd9X/2Ia5aj3jHt6uf41YQM6A+5c=; b=V/xsafD6q0moGNLNAfhYG3yTQ toxLRmNYb+430U/8x2m3gBUb+wQHfOup/vje2UtJtD4Lqp7YfGcUpZlmVwDGeSisVbvs04skTnz3H vyXdmBU/WtSBUckzU2JMTGoblWBnTROLpuKrv+VOgHpSt9Fi4tVEZ4vEhEuBXYkX5yZOYLdeKVi4i o/CQYeFMslasrIMMjaPcuyuXNhJCtAv3UH4GnMQWf+rV3DeJ6PUUDe1HZAsDT7eK8w2pOQBkEljEb 3I655I7zxye7ANoX2ne/z9rmRFuxsqgqzQDvmnMAUczsv77FAFi6usWkykghDGTdiRwtdPVybJY7j i/YbVUagQ==; Original-Received: from janus-nat-128-240-225-124.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.225.124]:49506 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1hGoMD-0007vz-L5; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:28:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:42:59 -0400") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235594 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> And while on the subject of Windows packaging. How come there is no >>> MSI installer for Emacs? It shouldn't be to hard to put one together >>> and it would make Emacs a little easier to install for newbies. >> What tools to use to produce the binary distribution is entirely up to the >> person who does that. And of course MSI is not free software. > > BTW, I seem to remember someone working on an "installer" for Emacs > on Windows. Does anyone know what came out of that? https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/emacs-27.0.50-snapshot-2019-01-17-x86_64-installer.exe Will become standard for Emacs-27. I missed the Emacs-26 fork. Phil