From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GnuTLS for W32 Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:52:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87sjjup2nj.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87aa64ubg9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83boqkr9bp.fsf@gnu.org> <874nwcu17i.fsf@wanadoo.es> <834nwcr6un.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcosskhc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <831urgr2yr.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4zgsh2w.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ipks3zbo.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87boqk3q69.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87aa634st8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fwfvsgfv.fsf@wanadoo.es> <877h17scdo.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87hb0b77nr.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjjv5moq.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325778804 27629 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 15:53:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:53:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 16:53:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ripd1-00011O-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35194 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ripd0-0000SV-Lc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:53:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ripct-0000S1-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:53:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ripcs-0004Of-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44654) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ripcs-0004OJ-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ripcl-0000tV-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 225.red-79-147-11.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([79.147.11.225]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:03 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 225.red-79-147-11.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:53:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 225.red-79-147-11.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YLxnp4aCgrisA4MBaZUIhnzDcRg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147349 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: > Here is my advice based on some commercial installers I worked on. [snipped a chunk of good advice] > If I were to do this I would make a build bot that produced daily > binaries of the installer of a complete Emacs installation including the > dll files. I would not bother with partial updating of particular dll:s > at this time. I used NSIS lots of years ago. Finally abandoned it because its poor support for partial updates. At the time some people were discussing the possibility of adding a component for updating a package through the Internet. Like a network installer but with the added capability of re-running and updating the previously installed files. Guess that nothing came out of it. > Later, I would implement libffi support in Emacs, by including Guile as > an Emacs dependency. Then we could have uniform soft dll support, and > get a step on the way on including Guile in the Emacs core. But I digress. I'm eager to see how well Guile competes with Emacs Lisp as a convenience for extending Emacs :-)