From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs? Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:46:08 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9003-Sat13Sep2003114608+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063443336 2528 80.91.224.253 (13 Sep 2003 08:55:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 10:55:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19y6Bq-00061t-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:55:34 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19y6DV-0001QR-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:57:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19y68d-00089O-Sm for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19y67C-0007vu-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19y679-0007vV-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19y678-0005Xj-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:50:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.18] (helo=bilbo.inter.net.il) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19y64S-0007yr-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-208-85.inter.net.il [80.230.208.85]) by bilbo.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.5-GR) with ESMTP id BLD58074; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:47:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Frank Schmitt X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Frank Schmitt on Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:20:14 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16361 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16361 > From: Frank Schmitt > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:20:14 +0200 > > During the last days, I've created a Windows Installer for GNU > Emacs. Here's what it currently does: You may wish to check out the Emacs installer written as part of the "GNU Software for MS-Windows and MS-DOS" CD-ROM, published by the FSF. (I can send you the source of the latest version, if you want.) That code, written by Andrew Innes, is under GPL, and I think if someone wants to maintain an official GNU installer for NTEmacs, that code should be a good starting place, I think. > My installer currently installs a CVS snapshot of Emacs' head from > 09/09/03 plus the dll's needed to display inline images With the CVS snapshot, you will need to compile Emacs first, won't you? > The installer was created with the help of two free tools: Inno Setup 4 > (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm OK, I don't really know if the > software can really be called free, it's published under a somewhat > BSD-like license, see http://www.jrsoftware.org/files/is/license.txt) to > create the installer and 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/ published under > the LGPL) to compress it to the size of 17.2 mb (uncompressed about > 93mb). One advantage of the installer I mentioned is that it is acompletely stand-alone, so none of the legal issues you mention even arise.