From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Anderson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:42:53 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091652202 12513 80.91.224.253 (4 Aug 2004 20:43:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 20:43:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 04 22:43:09 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BsSbN-00072l-00 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:43:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSes-0001vL-RA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSen-0001vF-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSek-0001v3-0Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsSej-0001v0-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.115.63.102] (helo=pimout3-ext.prodigy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BsSb8-0002Xm-Gn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: from www7.prodigy.net (www7-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.61.21]) by pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.10 milter /8.12.10) with SMTP id i74Kgr3d203578; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:42:53 -0400 Original-To: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" , "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26181 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26181 --- Original Message --- From: "Peter 'Luna' Runestig" To: Dhruva Krishnamurthy CC: Lennart Borgman , Emacs Devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows >On 2004-08-03 06:41, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote: >> What ever approach you/anyone writing an Installation program for MS OS >> takes, IMO, please make sure we do not have to have _admin_ rights to >> install. This is a real stopper. I have found many users giving up on >> lot of tools due to this limitation. > >Why? Why should "lusers" install new software on a computer? > >-- >Peter 'Luna' Runestig (fd. Altberg), Sweden >PGP Key ID: 0xD07BBE13 >Fingerprint: 7B5C 1F48 2997 C061 DE4B 42EA CB99 A35C D07B BE13 >AOL Instant Messenger Screen name: PRunestig >Yahoo! Messenger profile name: altberg So they can use it, perhaps? Bob