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From: | Phillip Lord |
Subject: | Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package |
Date: | Wed, 17 Apr 2019 18:28:25 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes: >>> And while on the subject of Windows packaging. How come there is no >>> MSI installer for Emacs? It shouldn't be to hard to put one together >>> and it would make Emacs a little easier to install for newbies. >> What tools to use to produce the binary distribution is entirely up to the >> person who does that. And of course MSI is not free software. > > BTW, I seem to remember someone working on an "installer" for Emacs > on Windows. Does anyone know what came out of that? https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/emacs-27.0.50-snapshot-2019-01-17-x86_64-installer.exe Will become standard for Emacs-27. I missed the Emacs-26 fork. Phil
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