From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:11:12 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091508095 12599 80.91.224.253 (3 Aug 2004 04:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 04:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 03 06:41:25 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 1Brr77-0006JL-00 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BrrAX-0006qL-EK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:44:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BrrAQ-0006q6-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BrrAP-0006pu-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BrrAP-0006pr-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:44:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.111.4.26] (helo=out2.smtp.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Brr6x-0001qU-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from server2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93D2C13EB0; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id D7BBC83058; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.4 (F2.72; T1.001; A1.62; B3.01; Q3.01) In-Reply-To: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> Original-To: "Lennart Borgman" , "Emacs Devel" X-Sasl-Enc: pp7BxEc0RajbuOdnNboXfQ 1091508072 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:26165 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26165 On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 00:17:45 +0200, "Lennart Borgman" said: > info. I am working on an installation package for MS Windows. Nothing > very > fancy, just an installation program as you get with most programs on MS > Windows. I did write down some lines on http://www.emacswiki.org/ about > it, What ever approach you/anyone writing an Installation program for MS OS takes, IMO, please make sure we do not have to have _admin_ rights to install. This is a real stopper. I have found many users giving up on lot of tools due to this limitation. with best regards, dhruva ________________________________________ Dhruva Krishnamurthy Proud FSF member: #1935 http://schemer.fateback.com/