From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: 23 Aug 2004 21:59:07 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093291200 25810 80.91.224.253 (23 Aug 2004 20:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 23 21:59:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BzKyn-0000KJ-00 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:59:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzL3G-0002Ye-G7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:04:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzL2p-0002KC-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BzL2n-0002JS-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BzL2n-0002Iy-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzKyD-0007uP-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzKyD-0006a1-5v; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:59:09 -0400 Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" In-Reply-To: <003e01c48946$a8ebfad0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:26429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26429 "Lennart Borgman" writes: > I have been struggling a bit with the installer. First I want to thank you > for all suggestions. I have tried to take a look at most of them. > > Further down you will find a summary of my personal view of some different > installers for MS Windows. I decided to use Inno Setup. I had already done > some work with it, it is free, it has good scripting capabilities (which I > needed in this case). > > Now I would like some suggestions. I hope you do not mind. First about where > to install Emacs. On ms windows most programs are installed in "c:\program > files\" as I guess you know. I see some alternatives (which I illustrate > with where emacs.exe is found): > > A) "c:\program files\emacs\bin\emacs.exe > B) "c:\program files\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe > C) "c:\program files\emacs\emacs\bin\emacs.exe > D) "c:\program files\emacs\emacs-21.3\bin\emacs.exe > > Which one would you prefer? What about using "c:\program files"? Most GNU programs have a concept of a "prefix" that folds out into bin/lib/var/share subdirectories. So the main idea would be to let the user specify this "prefix" (for example, when installing into an existing Cygwin tree) and let the prefix default to c:\program files\emacs This would land the executable in choice A) or B). > I include gnuclient and wonder where to put these exe-files. Same place. On systems where the current copy of Emacs is not necessarily in the path, invocation-directory is the first choice for looking for gnuclient. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum