Native windows gnuclient/winclient setup kit

[Vin Shelton]

Hi Adrian -

On 9/22/07, Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:
> > As an alternative to folding the gnuclient sources into the XEmacs
> > tree, I have developed a Windows-native gnuclient setup kit.  (Thanks,
> > Adrian, for helping me debug the kit.)  This kit will add gnuclient
> > and gnuserv functionality to the Windows-native XEmacs already
> > installed on your computer.  I have copied the setup kit to
> > http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/testing/gnuclient_setup.exe.
> > If you're interested, please download and run the kit.
>
> Hi Vin, that kit works even better:
>
> I noticed that uninstalling the previous gnusclient 2.0 installation leaves the gnuserv.exe
> and gnuclient*.exe files around in the installed XEmacsen's i586-pc-win32 dirrectories.  It
> does remove them and the source code folder from from C:\Program Files\XEmacs
> though.

Yes, until this weekend, uninstall support was incomplete.  I have
just uploaded a new version that uninstalls all the .exe files and
undoes the site-start.el modifications.

> There's still multiple DOS prompt boxes popping up per XEmacs installation being
> upgraded with gnuclient 2.0 functionality.

I managed to remove the pop-ups by invoking xemacs.exe through the
i.exe executable.  This makes setup think that it's invoking a
non-graphical application (which "xemacs -batch" is, really).

Regards,
  Vin

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