[h-e-w] Re: Emacs-21.3, Macaulay2-0.9.2 packaged in Microsoft Installer (.msi) format

[Rex Dieter]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:

> I absolutely appreciate your efforts. Mine
> (http://www.et.dtu.dk/Software/DNA/emacs21.3-setup.exe) are probably a
> lot less useful and I have several complaints about the installation
> of an external package (http://www.et.dtu.dk/Software/DNA/index.html)
> to use together with emacs. This is mainly because I haven't been able
> to figure out how I can make two installers; one for emacs, one for
> DNA, and make shortcuts and interaction work correctly.

With site-start.d support(*), install DNA as usual, and for 
emacs-integration, just drop DNA init in 
%programfiles%\Emacs\site-lisp\site-start.d\
and dna-mode.el in
%programfiles%\Emacs\site-lisp

and you should be good to go.

> But is it really the best way to make an installer that includes both
> programs, like yours? 

(??)
I don't include multiple programs in a single installer.  I've packaged 
Emacs and Macaulay2 separately.

-- Rex

(*) To add site-start.d support as I've done, simply append the attached 
site-start.el (borrowed from my redhat linux emacs install) to your 
%emacs_dir\site-lisp\site-start.el
;; load ".el" files in "/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/" on startup
(mapc 'load
      (directory-files "/Program Files/Emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d" t 
"\\.el\\'"))