From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:26:51 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="22653"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Van L Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 13:27:25 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 1hGiin-0005iR-Js for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:27:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiim-0000Km-K7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58979) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiiP-0000AN-9W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiiO-0005XM-St; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.12.247.39] (port=56040 helo=[10.160.102.216]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiiO-0007m0-1F; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:26:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:235569 Archived-At: On April 17, 2019 2:15:44 PM GMT+03:00, Van L wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> And while on the subject of Windows packaging=2E 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=2E > > > > What tools to use to produce the binary distribution is entirely up > to > > the person who does that=2E And of course MSI is not free software=2E >=20 > WSL should require less efforting in translation from GNU/Linux > packaging=2E There's no GNU/Linux packages, there are only files installed by "make ins= tall"=2E