Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27

[Phillip Lord]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:21:40 +0000 address@hidden (Phillip Lord) wrote: 
> PL>  - asks for elevation but doesn't need it
> PL>  - supposed to use show a logo but doesn't
> PL>  - doesn't know how to uninstall an existing version
>
> I assume you mean the contents of
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/

Yep.

> In order to check for updates, can you also push a .txt or .json file
> with enough information to identify the installer's version (which I
> assume is also the Emacs version) and other metadata, like what DLLs
> are included or even a manifest?

The files for snapshots are now dated. Is this enough? Manifest is not
so easy, since msys2 is a rolling release. The DLLs are the same as
those in the pre-test dependencies zip file.


> Then it will be easier to implement something in Emacs to check for
> available updates on that platform by looking at that version.

Let me know if you don't have enough.

Phil