Re: windows installer

[Fabrice Popineau]

2017-11-10 19:52 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:01:39 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> >  I suggest we instead use the user's profile folder. From an initial
> >  probe, this can be found in at least the following
> >  environment-variables on my Windows 10 test-machine: USERPROFILE (or
> >  by concatenating HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH ).
>
> I'll fix this.

Just to make this more complex: the Windows platform conventions frown
upon installing stuff in that directory; you are supposed to create a
subdirectory and install there.

And programs should not end up there, they should be under
%ProgramFiles% instead.  The user's directory is for files, not for
programs.

That are the recommendations, yes. But I have never installed stuff like Emacs or TeX (or others)

in %ProgramFiles%.

And neither Cygwin or MSYS2 install in this directory.

You are still free to install stuff in c:\Gnu is you chose to do so.

Fabrice