From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:09:44 +0000 Message-ID: <87375552rr.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87lgjibagr.fsf@russet.org.uk> <874lpo7n95.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511392386 28901 195.159.176.226 (22 Nov 2017 23:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:13:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 23 00:13:02 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 1eHeCP-0006sY-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:12:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHeCW-0003gp-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHeBO-0003Bo-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHeBL-0004eJ-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:11:54 -0500 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:54229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eHeBL-0004dK-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:11:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID :Date:In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=lJCqZY3R3K2n3NE+5zv5FaAFEoiwE6LyCiSzaWLOjTs=; b=t0LK5UgWUFzga8A3cthwScLX/ +uqOvNnqpTNp/2Okd+GN7ZQzCBKSO1AJZ8wdm7qu20juwWZs7AwVrhjAq1RjLXk778J0BIyOIwrUS DnK3Js8u2X8ZXpd/+XoYPIuFUEgDPN83hYst4zc0L8my8s4amP/WMCxAExmys9hQ4HKG68qITlb5l bXcSMCtT1z6fthUxk0/rv0/aWiN97XOC++lxIVjK0uvMAlI4/p0mIDHn5R52wwW/hrN5d4nzFkhzu BqfSP+FYFsUdBu/pGQTKPNdDmeudF//bVjJ3AjfAcaHy+x78LYuHau6HJcsQ5O34o4wvntIs2rlwe yYh/NWY+g==; Original-Received: from cpc8-benw10-2-0-cust100.16-2.cable.virginm.net ([92.233.204.101]:39940 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1eHeBK-0003wR-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:11:50 +0000 In-Reply-To: <874lpo7n95.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:39:50 -0500") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 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:220379 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:21:40 +0000 phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) wrote: > PL> - asks for elevation but doesn't need it > PL> - supposed to use show a logo but doesn't > PL> - doesn't know how to uninstall an existing version > > I assume you mean the contents of > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/ Yep. > In order to check for updates, can you also push a .txt or .json file > with enough information to identify the installer's version (which I > assume is also the Emacs version) and other metadata, like what DLLs > are included or even a manifest? The files for snapshots are now dated. Is this enough? Manifest is not so easy, since msys2 is a rolling release. The DLLs are the same as those in the pre-test dependencies zip file. > Then it will be easier to implement something in Emacs to check for > available updates on that platform by looking at that version. Let me know if you don't have enough. Phil