From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows installer Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:40:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83efp5p8km.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<87po99qzbn.fsf@russet.org.uk> <1509955878.550800.1162811960.541B525D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87h8u6bae3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <1510126271.1965593.1165373624.0601E5CF@webmail.messagingengine.com> <8760aijcek.fsf@russet.org.uk>> <<83ineiotjr.fsf@gnu.org>> <3f972e79-afcd-4f92-a283-41fad4b687fb@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510386019 29513 195.159.176.226 (11 Nov 2017 07:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jostein@kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 11 08:40:15 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQOk-0007Mq-6k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 08:40:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQOp-00010K-Or for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:40:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41121) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQOj-0000ye-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:40:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQOg-0002JB-1V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:40:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQOf-0002J7-U7; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1698 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQOf-0005JA-93; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:40:09 -0500 In-reply-to: <3f972e79-afcd-4f92-a283-41fad4b687fb@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:43:08 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220050 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:43:08 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, jostein@kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I, for one, am not interested in "installing" any Emacs build > (Program Files etc.). I use multiple builds from different > releases. I don't even want anything added, by default, to > PATH. Then you should be fine with just unzipping a zip file, because by default the Windows explorer does that into a separate directory. But this installer is not for people like you or me who know what they are doing and have special needs and requirements. It is primarily for the naïve (a.k.a. "newbie") who just want to be able to invoke the installer and get Emacs installed "correctly", meaning that Emacs is available to any other program running on the system. And that means being installed where other programs are installed (which gives them additional protection by system-wide processes and features), and being on PATH.