From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:42:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="164340"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" 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 Wed Apr 17 15:56:50 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 1hGl3R-000ge0-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:56:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGl3Q-0006dE-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:56:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGl0F-0004dl-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:53:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGkqB-0004MA-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51428 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGkqB-0004KG-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 09:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGkq9-000Q2J-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:43:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:wQOT02TDHYyeSNT9zIZsv7lIweY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:235574 Archived-At: >> And while on the subject of Windows packaging. 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. > What tools to use to produce the binary distribution is entirely up to the > person who does that. And of course MSI is not free software. BTW, I seem to remember someone working on an "installer" for Emacs on Windows. Does anyone know what came out of that? Stefan