----- Original Message ----- From: "Rex Dieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:42 PM Subject: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs-21.3, Macaulay2-0.9.2 packaged in Microsoft Installer (.msi) format
> Lennart Borgman wrote: > > Yes, there are indeed other projects for installation kits for Emacs on MS > > Windows. Please go to > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit for more > > information. > > I don't see any other project listed there creating *.msi* installers... > Please correct me if I'm wrong. Now at least your project is mentioned there ;-) I think we have taken very different paths, but I am not sure. As far as I can see you have created a installation package that contains Emacs. Because this is quite big (14-16 MB) I can not download it now and look into it, so I do not know for sure. What I have been trying to do is to create a framework for making an installation package - but also a utility that you could use to "setup" the emacs you already have. This download is less than 1MB. If I would create an actual installation package (including Emacs) it will be about the size of your package. The main disadvantage of my approach is maybe that it does not create a MSI package. It is however very easy to create the installation package with either the current version of Emacs or the CVS version of Emacs but I myself does not want to do it because of low bandwith. Anyone is free to do that. The package you create will include support for gnuserv/gnuclient, starting Emacs from Explorer or from cmd.exe, file association setup etc. I would be glad if we somehow could mix our efforts.
