From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:15:44 +1000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="241539"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 17 13:16:06 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 1hGiXt-0010gq-Fd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:16:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50714 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiXs-0005ev-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiXl-0005eU-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiXj-0004sH-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33144 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiXh-0004q5-RY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGiXf-0010QR-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:15:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:1AKsNyJ4EcHCj1m/bknUvco0xB4= 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:235568 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. WSL should require less efforting in translation from GNU/Linux packaging. -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists" - Donald Trump