Re: [h-e-w] Registry and installation scripts

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> Dr Francis J Wright wrote:
>
> > The GNU Emacs source code will be freely available for the foreseeable
> > future.  So, even if various precompiled, prepackaged versions are
> > available, it will always be possible to compile from source and 
> > ignore the
> > packaging.
> >  
> Right. There are several installers out there, but I know Lennart has 
> written his installer (which is the one that is likely to become part 
> of the official distribution after 22.1 is released) to work with the 
> official packages, not to replace them. I don't see this changing in 
> future, even if/when the installer becomes part of the official Emacs 
> distribution.

As a matter of fact I have written installation kit (which I call Emacs 
Setup Utilities for MS Windows) so that it can be used in different 
ways. It can be used to enhance (I hope) existing Emacs installation. It 
can be used to install Emacs from the *.tar.gz distribution file (ie 
emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz).

It can also be used to build distribution packages that includes Emacs 
in the installation exe file. I have actually just built to such 
distribution packages to prove the concept, one with the current release 
version (that is built using the tar.gz file above) and one built from 
the CVS version.

I have uploaded them to 
http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32InstallationKit.html .

BTW the installation kit write only to HKEY_USER if there are no privs 
to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. It can however not avoid writing to 
Registry since gnuserv/client needs this info. (But I might have made a 
mistake when it comes to file associations... - did I check for privs 
there?)