From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: 06 Aug 2004 15:56:15 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> <4111D8D4.1040506@runestig.com> <1091693906.8538.201741376@webmail.messagingengine.com> <001d01c47afa$c1f5f170$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091800611 21658 80.91.224.253 (6 Aug 2004 13:56:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , list@dhruva.fastmail.fm, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 06 15:56:40 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 1Bt5D6-0007MQ-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:56:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt5Gh-0005XP-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt5GV-0005Wf-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt5GU-0005Vu-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bt5GU-0005Vr-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bt5Cq-00062o-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:56:24 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bt5Ci-0003V4-VG; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 09:56:17 -0400 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:26205 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26205 Richard Stallman writes: > > What installer is thought of? I have used NullSoft's installer and it > > is very easy to implement. > > I am using Inno Setup. I have not heard of NullSoft before. > > Please keep in mind that any installer we use for GNU Emacs > must be free software. > > I don't use MS Windows so I wouldn't know if either of those is free. > If one of them is free, then I suppose we could use it. Didn't Microsoft recently release some installer tool Wix under the CPL? More info is at . AFAIR, the CPL, while being Open Source, is not GPL compatible. However, since we are really talking about aggregation here, I don't think this should be relevant. I also have no idea whether this thing will actually be useful for our purposes, but it is probably something worth taking a look at, if it is a standard way of installing Windows software and at least freely available with source, even if not under the GPL. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum