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Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:27:51 +0200 |
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" <address@hidden>
> IMO, A user _must_ be able to install software for him/her self. In the
> registry (on Windoze), there are areas not accessible to the users (or
> better "lusers") and an installation trying to write into such locations
> will not work with normal user rights (HKEY_CURRENT_USER and
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE). This is the only issue I can foresee which might
> cause a limitation based on access rights during the proposed GNU Emacs
> installation. As we do not need to do any DLL/COM service registration,
> we are saved in GNU Emacs.
> The one environment variable that the installer might want to modify is
> PATH. This could be done under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE if the current user
> is found to have access to it or modify it under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
> Infact, an option like in Cygwin installation could be made "Just for
> me/For all users" during installation.
I agree. Do you know exactly what privileges are required for HKLM and HKCR
write? (Admin or Poweruser are those my installer chooses between.)
> 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.
Kind regards,
Lennart
- Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/02
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Dhruva Krishnamurthy, 2004/08/03
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Peter 'Luna' Runestig, 2004/08/04
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/04
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Peter 'Luna' Runestig, 2004/08/05
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Peter 'Luna' Runestig, 2004/08/05
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/05
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Dhruva Krishnamurthy, 2004/08/05
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows,
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Dhruva Krishnamurthy, 2004/08/06
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Richard Stallman, 2004/08/06
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, David Kastrup, 2004/08/06
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Peter 'Luna' Runestig, 2004/08/06
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Peter 'Luna' Runestig, 2004/08/27
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Frank Schmitt, 2004/08/07
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/08/07
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/23
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/23
- Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows, Lennart Borgman, 2004/08/24