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* windows installer
@ 2017-10-26 23:11 Phillip Lord
  2017-10-28 21:47 ` Richard Stallman
  2017-11-06  8:11 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 75+ messages in thread
From: Phillip Lord @ 2017-10-26 23:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


I've had a quick play and created an "installer" version of Emacs for
windows. Cheesy and ugly at the moment, but it works. It uses the NSIS
toolkit which is nicely packaged for msys2.

NSIS is free software, albeit the non GPL compatible CPL
(http://nsis.sourceforge.net/License). I don't believe this is a problem
as it would only be a packager. I'd welcome more informed opinion about
whether this is appropriate for Emacs.

Probably too late to put this onto Emacs-26 now I fear, but it could be
ready in time for Emacs-27. If any one is interested, I can uploaded it
to the pre-test website (as the Emacs source is already there).

As with the new zips I've created, this does raise questions about
release of updates to the binaries. This installer will contain (lots
of) other dependency files. My current plan is to freeze the
dependencies during pre-test. But this means, that these dependencies
will get old during the Emacs release cycle.

Anyway, thought's welcome.

Phil



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* Re: windows installer
@ 2017-11-12  8:56 Angelo Graziosi
  2017-11-12  9:03 ` Fabrice Popineau
  2017-11-12 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 75+ messages in thread
From: Angelo Graziosi @ 2017-11-12  8:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
> Hmm ... besides copying the whole Emacs directory on an usb stick, what else do I 
> need to do in order to use emacs from this  stick on another computer ?

..an app to be really portable cannot write the host machine, so .emacs.d should go on the device where the portable app is installed. Obviously it cannot write the registry, what PortableApps do...

maybe starting Emacs with this bat is sufficient:

cat E:/Emacs_portable/bin/runemacs_portable.bat
set HOME=%~dp0..\HOME
"%~dp0runemacs.exe" %*


Angelo



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2017-11-08  7:31       ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-11-10 17:01         ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-10 18:52           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 20:46             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-10 21:22               ` John Mastro
2017-11-10 21:35               ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-11  7:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 11:34                 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 14:57                 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-12 11:21                 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-11-10 21:33             ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-11  7:35               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 23:27             ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11  0:25               ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-11 11:25                 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-12  0:30                   ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-12  4:30                     ` Eli Zaretskii
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2017-11-13 22:25                       ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-14 13:08                         ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 16:15                           ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11  7:48               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 11:24                 ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11 12:01                   ` Eli Zaretskii
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2017-11-10 21:43             ` Drew Adams
2017-11-10 23:35               ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-11  7:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11  7:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11  9:42                 ` Yuri Khan
2017-11-11 10:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 16:39                 ` Drew Adams
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2017-11-13 22:44                     ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-14 14:54                       ` Drew Adams
2017-11-16 16:15                         ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-16 16:23                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 16:31                             ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 16:57                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 17:35                                 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 17:39                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-16 18:10                                     ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 20:45                                       ` Richard Copley
2017-11-17  7:14                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17  7:22                                           ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-17  7:35                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-17  7:25                                         ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-16 17:42                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2017-11-16 17:45                                     ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-22 22:39                                   ` Phillip Lord
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2017-11-12  8:56 Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12  9:03 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-12 11:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 12:39     ` Fabrice Popineau
     [not found]       ` <8760adbxw6.fsf@russet.org.uk>
2017-11-13 22:46         ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-14 14:36           ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-14 16:31             ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-11-14 20:12               ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-20  8:46                 ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2017-11-20 18:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 23:01                   ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-23  3:43                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-23 18:06                       ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-23 20:09                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-24 19:13                           ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-24 19:56                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-25 11:08                               ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-25 12:56                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 17:56                                   ` Phillip Lord
2017-11-12 14:14   ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12 11:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 14:27   ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12 15:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-12 17:32       ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-11-12 18:42         ` Eli Zaretskii

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