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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285126 Archived-At: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" writes: >> Why? The Emacs installation tree is designed to accommodate more than >> a single Emacs version simultaneously. Using versioned directories >> would mean users need to tweak their PATH each time they install a new >> version, which is undesirable and unnecessary. > > Stupid me, I meant Emacs' release numbers not "version" numbers! > > At the moment Emacs will be installed per default into > > c:\ > |- Program Files\ > |- Emacs > > If you intent to install another Emacs release and forget to change the > installation directory "Emacs" then - without warning - the new release > will be installed over the old one. Is this supposed to work for major > release numbers? > > Wouldn't it be better to install Emacs in a tree with the release > numbers? > > c:\ > |- Program Files\ > |- Emacs-27.1 > |- Emacs-27.2 > |- Emacs-28.0.91 This is the NSIS installer I wrote? It should include a version number, but I think with a common top level directory (I can't test it at the moment). Phil