How to make a windows setup kit

[Ben Wing]

Andy Piper wrote:

> At 07:52 PM 12/12/2005, Vin Shelton wrote:
>
>> Can someone tell me how to create and make available a Windows setup
>> kit for 21.4?  I'd like to upgrade the kit from 21.4.13 to 21.4.18 or
>> 21.4.19.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Vin
>
>
> I have tried this a bunch of times. Unfortunately cygwin has changed 
> so that the netinstaller no longer compiles. I spent some time trying 
> to figure out why, but gave up in the end. In theory you just run the 
> windows build script, but the cygwin lossage means that this no longer 
> works. Someone needs to take the time and fix the breakage.
>
we should ideally adopt a solution using installshield or some other 
package that's specifically designed for general installation, not just 
for cygwin's own purposes.

what does gnu emacs do?  i thought they had a graphical installer.

and surely there must be open source equivalents of installshield by now?