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: May I publish a Windows Installer for GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:44:33 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1063396203 16448 80.91.224.253 (12 Sep 2003 19:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 12 21:50:01 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 19xtvd-0004eN-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:50:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xtx2-0005mG-00 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:51:28 +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 19xttO-0005uI-J9 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xtst-0005nK-IL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19xtsp-0005mH-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19xtsp-0005lr-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.166] (helo=mail.epost.de) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19xtrC-00047W-Qx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.30) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3F5F464C00035C0A; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:45:23 +0200 Original-To: Frank Schmitt In-Reply-To: (Frank Schmitt's message of "Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:20:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:16337 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16337 Hi Frank, Some thoughts. Frank Schmitt writes: > then the registry entries which would normally be set by running > addpm.exe are added AFAIK, these are not necessary any more, so if I were you, I wouldn't do that. > If $HOME has been set by the installer, the user is now prompted for > a reboot and installation is finished. Don't know how you are setting the variable on W9x/Me, but on NT/W2K/XP, you don't needs a reboot for this. I think you need to send a notication message so that the Windows Explorer picks up the new variable, but that's all. benny