Jason Rumney wrote:
Dr Francis J Wright wrote:
The GNU Emacs source code will be freely available for the foreseeable
future. So, even if various precompiled, prepackaged versions are
available, it will always be possible to compile from source and
ignore the
packaging.
Right. There are several installers out there, but I know Lennart has
written his installer (which is the one that is likely to become part
of the official distribution after 22.1 is released) to work with the
official packages, not to replace them. I don't see this changing in
future, even if/when the installer becomes part of the official Emacs
distribution.
As a matter of fact I have written installation kit (which I call Emacs
Setup Utilities for MS Windows) so that it can be used in different
ways. It can be used to enhance (I hope) existing Emacs installation. It
can be used to install Emacs from the *.tar.gz distribution file (ie
emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz).
It can also be used to build distribution packages that includes Emacs
in the installation exe file. I have actually just built to such
distribution packages to prove the concept, one with the current release
version (that is built using the tar.gz file above) and one built from
the CVS version.
I have uploaded them to
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32InstallationKit.html .
BTW the installation kit write only to HKEY_USER if there are no privs
to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. It can however not avoid writing to
Registry since gnuserv/client needs this info. (But I might have made a
mistake when it comes to file associations... - did I check for privs
there?)
