Re: [Adding gnuclient_setup, removing Netinstall and InstallShield from website] (was: Announcements)
On 10/6/07, Adrian Aichner wrote:
Vin Shelton writes:
> I recently made a new gnuclient_setup window kit.
Thanks Vin, it works great for me!
I would like to make it easy from the XEmacs website to find and
install your new gnuclient_setup window kit.
I think about putting in a
XEmacs Community News
item for this.
Furthermore I think that download links for gnuclient_setup.exe should
go into http://www.xemacs.org/Download/win32/
Yes, I think it works well enough that we can move it out of the
testing directory.
Vin, do you want to copy/mv
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/windows/testing/XEmacs_Setup_21.5-b28-2007-0...
over to
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/binaries/win32/InnoSetup/
Sounds like you think we should "go public". I agree.
I had been thinking of waiting for the -b28 release. (Oops - I guess
I missed that triggering event :-) .) I don't see any particular
reason to wait for the impending -b29 release. I'll copy the file
over.
I think we never announced the beta binary kits for Windows.
Should
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/windows/testing/gnuclient_setup.exe
also be moved over, or should I link to the testing location from the website?
Well, I think you should link to the new location in the InnoSetup
directory and leave the windows/testing directory for the adventurous.
Do you mind making the changes to the website?
Perhaps it's time to remove the information about the outdated
Netinstall
and
InstallShield
kits from that page, and remove the kits from the ftp sites too?
Any objections?
Well, they're pretty old (mostly circa 1999 - 2001). I don't think
keeping them around does the project any good.
I am noting two regressions using gnuclientw vs. winclient (which I
used
before):
When I sent a file to XEmacs for editing via winclient before, it
would always raise the XEmacs frame.
Now, when I do this, the file gets loaded in the running XEmacs OK,
but the frame does not get raised.
e.g. C-u in firefox (Firefox->View->Page Source)
Yes, I see this also. gnuclientw is supposed to handle this.
The other regression is that no new XEmacs is started when none is running.
Instead I get the error message:
---------------------------
c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.5-b28\\i586-pc-win32\\gnuclientw.exe
---------------------------
Could not start runemacs
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------
I'll investigate and see if I creating a runemacs.cmd file in the
gnuclientw directory suffices.
(BTW, I had to boost TRANSACTION_TIMEOUT to make winclient wait long
enough to start up XEmacs.)
Thanks for the testing and the feedback, Adrian!
- Vin
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