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: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:07:21 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4113BAC9.9000309@runestig.com> 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> 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 1091812078 21943 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2004 17:07:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:07:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 19:07:41 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 1Bt8Bw-0001rV-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 19:07:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt8FY-0007tO-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt8FP-0007q2-TS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt8FO-0007ok-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt8FO-0007og-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:11:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.109] (helo=av3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bt8Bg-0008LR-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: by av3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 5CF7437E7D; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4685737E4E for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:07:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from merlin.runestig.com (h20n2fls34o823.telia.com [217.208.10.20]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0BB37E43 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:07:19 +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 i76H7JvD024601 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:07:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040224) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:26206 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26206 On 2004-08-06 15:56, David Kastrup wrote: > Didn't Microsoft recently release some installer tool Wix under the > CPL? More info is at > . > > AFAIR, the CPL, while being Open Source, is not GPL compatible. > However, since we are really talking about aggregation here, I don't > think this should be relevant. > > I also have no idea whether this thing will actually be useful for our > purposes, but it is probably something worth taking a look at, if it > is a standard way of installing Windows software and at least freely > available with source, even if not under the GPL. No, I don't think this is what you want. It creates Windows Installer MSI packages, which IS the standard way to install stuff on Windows, but to install them, you must be admin (AFAIK anyway). As per http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-09/msg00358.html I wrote some C code some time ago, to create such an installer package, as part of the normal build process. I thought it to be really cool, but it seemed I was the only one excited, so the development of my MSI Toolkit kind of died out. I still use it for making installer packages of stuff like Mozilla, OpenSSL, Perl, Emacs though, take a look at http://ftp.runestig.com/pub/ if you're curious. -- 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