From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:19:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87r2a0sixc.fsf@telefonica.net> 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="29556"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 18:20:52 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 1hGnIm-0007Wb-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:20:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56227 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnIl-0000Ak-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:47285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnI7-0000AL-L7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnI6-0000nu-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33804 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnI6-0000n5-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGnI4-0006fK-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:20:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:twpQx2hU5vOAlnJKIBKjvk82s8M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:235587 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? IIRC it tanked when (L)GLP-mandated source file distribution came to the scenary. Creating an installer is quite easy and others did that on the past. Providing the sources of the tools and libraries that Emacs depends on makes the work orders of magnitude more difficult.