From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs? Date: 13 Sep 2003 05:02:10 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3097.1063392768@mixed> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063443771 2992 80.91.224.253 (13 Sep 2003 09:02:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Peter S Galbraith , David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 11:02:48 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 19y6Iq-0006EZ-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:02:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19y6KU-0001k0-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:04:31 +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 19y6IN-0003wt-Na for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19y6IK-0003wd-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19y6II-0003wG-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:02:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.245.84.69] (helo=colo.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19y6IH-0003w1-Lm; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by colo.agora-net.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 19y6IE-0001IS-00; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:02:10 -0400 Original-To: Frank Schmitt In-Reply-To: Frank Schmitt's message of "Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:50:56 +0200" Original-Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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:16363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16363 Frank Schmitt writes: I see Peters and your point, however this is a bit tricky to do (the licence dialog is a standard dialog in the setup creator, I'd have to create a new dialog from scratch or modify the sources of the setup creator and recompile it). if the dialog is standard, why not roll w/ it and slide some gnu into the users' head? go meta w/ something like: "this is the ``standard'' dialog, normally you would have to ``agree'' to FOO (even if you don't really read it), but now you have GNU (which is a different beast entirely). if interested, read on, intrepid human!" followed by the manifesto or whatnot. throw in some links to fsf, gnu, eff, etc. thi