Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package

[Phillip Lord]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> And while on the subject of Windows packaging. How come there is no
>>> MSI installer for Emacs? It shouldn't be to hard to put one together
>>> and it would make Emacs a little easier to install for newbies.
>> What tools to use to produce the binary distribution is entirely up to the
>> person who does that.  And of course MSI is not free software.
>
> BTW, I seem to remember someone working on an "installer" for Emacs
> on Windows.  Does anyone know what came out of that?

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/emacs-27.0.50-snapshot-2019-01-17-x86_64-installer.exe

Will become standard for Emacs-27. I missed the Emacs-26 fork.

Phil