Re: [h-e-w] Fwd: Re: Control frame size on startup from .emacs

[Neil J Mackie]

Lennart asked,
> > Could you please take a look at the installer/setup utility

OK. I actually used this a few days ago to update my emacs at home. I did 
not appreciate the introduction of a Emacs-211.3 subdirectory to my setup, 
which has always been "Program Files \ Emacs\bin", which left me with two 
emacs binaries, two site list directories etc, but that is not really the 
point.

The point is that up to now emacs has been set up by downloading a 
compressed distribution, uncompressing it and then copying the files into 
position. The same for gnuclient/gnuserver and any elisp files like cua.el. 
Its a _manual_ process of copying files, that is acceptable in a corporate 
environment (they cant sack you for copying a file). Since you control what 
goes in site-start.el or .emacs you can show you have control over what 
emacs does. (You cannot 'prove' what emacs does but I'd gloss over that).

_Any_ automated procedure is unacceptable in a corporate environment, as is 
_any_ use of the registry.

Can anyone contribute how emacs is being officially developed on the Windows 
platform and whether the use of the registry and installation scripts are 
sanctioned or not?

I dont want to prevent progress, or be critical of well intentioned effort, 
but I do want to continue to use emacs on a daily basis at work.

Regards,
Neil (J Mackie).