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 09:35:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83fu9lp8rr.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1510385763 20215 195.159.176.226 (11 Nov 2017 07:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jostein@secure.kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 11 08:35:57 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 1eDQKa-0004x4-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 08:35:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQKh-0000CN-V6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:36:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQKb-0000C1-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQKX-00010W-3S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQKW-00010S-W5; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1695 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eDQKW-0008Dl-64; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:35:52 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Fabrice Popineau on Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:33:43 +0100) 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:220049 Archived-At: > From: Fabrice Popineau > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:33:43 +0100 > Cc: Phillip Lord , > Jostein Kjønigsen , > Jostein Kjønigsen , > Emacs developers > > And programs should not end up there, they should be under > %ProgramFiles% instead. The user's directory is for files, not for > programs. > > That are the recommendations, yes. But I have never installed stuff like Emacs or TeX (or others) > in %ProgramFiles%. Neither did I. But did you ever install programs under %USERPROFILE%\%USERNAME%? I don't think so. And my comment was to the suggestion to install in the latter place. > You are still free to install stuff in c:\Gnu is you chose to do so. Of course. I never said anything to the contrary.