Re: E 0.9.3 release?
"Mark S. Miller" <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2011, at 1:12, Mark Miller wrote: > > > Assuming this doesn't work out easily, I'm inclined to pull all the > > registry magic from the E installation. Would this inconvenience > > anyone? Does anyone still care about, for example, the binding of > > the ".e" extension to the E launching behavior? > > Back when I was thinking about installation design, the conclusion I > had reached was that we should switch to, instead of having install > scripts, generating a .msi installer package, which would contain the > registry fiddling itself. > After a bit of Googling, I could neither find any simple explanations of the .msi format nor any attractive open source programs for generating these, except for <http://msi2xml.sourceforge.net/>. Do you have any simpler solution in mind? > > > Next up, reviewing your higher priority change lists, in order to > > create an 0.9.3b, which will be worth updating pages to state is the > > new official release. I would like to stop using the download pages > > on erights.org and instead use wiki.erights.org. Could I put the > > download files themselves there as well? > > MediaWiki does not support hosting arbitrary files. Among other > reasons, it would have the untrusted-web-content problems you are > familiar with. > Gotcha. I will continue posting the E distributions at erights.org/download, but I'll update pages at wiki.erights.org, rather than erights.org/download, to point at these. If some way could be found for me not to be a bottleneck on future releases, that would be even better. > > -- > Kevin Reid <http://switchb.org/kpreid/> > > _______________________________________________ > e-lang mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang > -- Cheers, --MarkM _______________________________________________ e-lang mailing list [email protected] http://www.eros-os.org/mailman/listinfo/e-lang