From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:39:20 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <008d01c4b886$32d07ff0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098643226 32130 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 18:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 20:40:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLnHr-0006Ph-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:40:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLnPS-0000Lx-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLnPJ-0000LY-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLnPI-0000LM-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLnPI-0000LJ-LD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.151] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CLnHb-0003Yy-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:40:00 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (7.2.033.1) (authenticated as Benjamin.Riefenstahl) id 41770CC200052FF1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:39:40 +0200 Original-To: Emacs Devel In-Reply-To: (Jason Rumney's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:39:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28841 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28841 Hi Jason, Jason Rumney writes: > emacs_dir is always replaced with the generated value. The only time > it is not is if Emacs can't work out what the generated value should > be (you have installed in a non-standard directory). You mean if it is not running from within a standard installation tree (in any top-level directory). > The other values in the registry are the same as the defaults. Emacs > will actually work now with nothing in the registry, the main reason > for setting them in the install program is that older versions used > hard-coded paths (not relative to emacs_dir), which may cause > problems if they point to a different version, so we want to replace > the old values. So Lennart has a point there. The variables are not needed. They should probably be removed by the installer, if they exist, instead of overwriting them with unneeded values. Or am I missing something? benny