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Re: windows installer
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: windows installer |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:01:11 +0200 |
> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:24:09 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> > IOW, Emacs is not just a GUI application used interactively, it is
> > also a program that supports batch-mode invocation, and that mode is
> > at times used by other programs. Keeping the Emacs binary off the
> > users' system PATH is therefore less than ideal, because the users
> > will then bump into subtle problems whereby Emacs seems "unavailable".
>
> I suspect that these sort of users will install with the zip file or
> equivalent.
If that's our solution, then this should be prominently mentioned in
the README file. (As one of "these sort of users", I use installers
in many cases, and would not expect myself to be considered "special".
But since you are doing the work, it's your call. I obviously have no
problems with unzipping a zip archive as the method of installing a
package.)
Anyway, in general, I see no reason why we couldn't cater to both
groups, since updating PATH is not hard, and many/most installers
offer that, at least as an option.
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