Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that
> > > > possibility there any more?
>
> We needed a single executable for making installations and upgrades as
> simple as possible for customers (they'll break everything otherwise).
> A self-extracting batch file is doable reasonably well (once unzip.exe
> has been installed).  Appending an archive to a .exe file is not as
> feasible, in contrast.

The perl script exectutable could perhaps be zipped together with any 
needed archives.

> I don't think I know of any multi-platform free software project where
> the Windows port is not responsible for the most hair-tearing and
> frustration.

When I started looking at Emacs I noticed there were cross platform 
installers emerging that could do quite a bit. (But do not ask me about 
the names of them now.)