From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:37:46 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091651916 11780 80.91.224.253 (4 Aug 2004 20:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 20:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 04 22:38:10 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 1BsSWX-0006gj-00 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:38:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSa3-0000vb-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSZv-0000sa-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSZu-0000qm-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSZu-0000qj-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.184] (helo=av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BsSWE-0001mP-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D15AA380B7; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:37:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C005137F24; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:37:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from merlin.runestig.com (h20n2fls34o823.telia.com [217.208.10.20]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4804637E4B; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:37:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from runestig.com (morgana.runestig.com [192.168.255.2]) by merlin.runestig.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i74KbfGW021621; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:37:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040224) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy In-Reply-To: <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> 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:26180 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26180 On 2004-08-03 06:41, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote: > 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. Why? Why should "lusers" install new software on a computer? -- Peter 'Luna' Runestig (fd. Altberg), Sweden PGP Key ID: 0xD07BBE13 Fingerprint: 7B5C 1F48 2997 C061 DE4B 42EA CB99 A35C D07B BE13 AOL Instant Messenger Screen name: PRunestig Yahoo! Messenger profile name: altberg