From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Should Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows be in Emacs CVS? Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:37:14 +0100 Message-ID: <00af01c50ee7$68c4cf50$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107981660 7319 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2005 20:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 20:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guy Gascoigne - Piggford Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 09 21:41:00 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyycU-000266-7T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:39:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cyyr5-0003iA-4y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:54:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyyqH-0003UJ-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:53:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CyyqF-0003Tc-IU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:53:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyyqF-0003TZ-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:53:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.114] (helo=av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cyyci-0005c8-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:39:44 -0500 Original-Received: by av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5B07837E76; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:39:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.183]) by av3-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E4937E58; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:39:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t1o58p43.telia.com [62.20.164.43]) by smtp2-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 001E137E49; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:39:41 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Emacs Devel" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33156 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33156 I believe that Emacs Setup Utilities for MS Windows now is nearly finished. There should of course be CVS for it and I wonder if it should go into Emacs CVS or somewhere else. What are your opinions about this? My personal opinion is of course that it should be there before next release. There are perhaps some things in it that you have opinions about. This is perhaps the time to bring them up? There is one important thing that is not finished yet. The port of emacsclient/server to w32 is not finished. Instead of this gnuclient/server is now in the package. This is an enhanced gnuclient/server which (as I have previously explained) automatically starts Emacs if needed. gnuserv-start is called in the background, the user does not have to care. (This feature can be avoided of course.) This way of starting the server/client I believe is an important part for MS Windows where Emacs probably will often be used as a server by at least novice users. (I myself most often starts Emacs from the command line this way - though that is me.) Guy is working on the emacsclient/server port to w32, but I do not know the state of it at the moment.