Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     >  What installer is thought of? I have used NullSoft's installer and it
>     >  is very easy to implement.
> 
>     I am using Inno Setup. I have not heard of NullSoft before.
> 
> Please keep in mind that any installer we use for GNU Emacs
> must be free software.
> 
> I don't use MS Windows so I wouldn't know if either of those is free.
> If one of them is free, then I suppose we could use it.

Didn't Microsoft recently release some installer tool Wix under the
CPL?  More info is at
<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/04/05/107709.aspx>.

AFAIR, the CPL, while being Open Source, is not GPL compatible.
However, since we are really talking about aggregation here, I don't
think this should be relevant.

I also have no idea whether this thing will actually be useful for our
purposes, but it is probably something worth taking a look at, if it
is a standard way of installing Windows software and at least freely
available with source, even if not under the GPL.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum