From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows installer Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:46:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87po99qzbn.fsf@russet.org.uk> <1509955878.550800.1162811960.541B525D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87h8u6bae3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <1510126271.1965593.1165373624.0601E5CF@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8760aijcek.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83ineiotjr.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510346791 26534 195.159.176.226 (10 Nov 2017 20:46:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:46:31 +0000 (UTC) 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 Fri Nov 10 21:46:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDGC2-0006di-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDGC9-0003HV-Gs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58897) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDGC1-0003HP-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:46:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDGBw-0001ff-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41139 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDGBv-0001f2-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDGBj-0005ui-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:46:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:iDem75pvwdbvRtnYwonywfxvLjM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:220038 Archived-At: > They _will_ want to add it to PATH if they want to install packages > from the likes of ELPA, which frequently come with Makefiles that > invoke Emacs to compile the Lisp files. For lack of familiarity with the Windows world, I don't know if typical Windows users will want to add it to PATH (as a GNU/Linux user, of course I'd do that), but I think the "frequently" above is incorrect. The way Elisp files are compiled by package.el is to do it in the running Emacs rather than by executing a separate Emacs session, AFAIK. And even if you configure it to use something like async.el, doesn't (expand-file-name invocation-name invocation-directory) let async.el find an Emacs executable even when it's not in PATH? Stefan