Windows Install Kit for XEmacs-21.4.18 - Please Test

[Surendra Singhi]

Vin Shelton <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> writes:

> Calling all XEmacs Windows users -
>
> I have copied an XEmacs 21.4.18 setup kit to:
>
> ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/testing/Install_XEmacs-21.4.18-test3.exe
>
> Please download this setup kit and test it out.  This setup kit only
> supports Windows native mode and includes the following packages:
> c-support, cc-mode, debug, dired, edit-utils, efs, fsf-compat,
> general-docs, mail-lib, net-utils, os-utils, pc, prog-modes,
> sounds-wav, text-modes, time, xemacs-base, xemacs-devel.
>
> Please test this out and let me know whether or not this works for
> you.  I built the kit on XP, so I am particularly interested in
> whether it works on Windows 2000 and earlier.

Hello Vin,

I installed this and everything went fine.
But now when I am trying to  install new packages, using the package interface,
I get the following error. 

Thanks.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program" "No such file or directory" "minitar")
  start-process-internal("*call-process*" #<buffer "*Package Output*"> "minitar" "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz")
  apply(start-process-internal "*call-process*" #<buffer "*Package Output*"> "minitar" "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz")
  call-process-internal("minitar" nil #<buffer "*Package Output*"> t "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz")
  apply(call-process-internal "minitar" nil #<buffer "*Package Output*"> t "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz")
  call-process("minitar" nil #<buffer "*Package Output*"> t "c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz")
  package-admin-install-function-mswindows("c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz" "c:\\XEmacs-21.4.18\\xemacs-packages\\" #<buffer "*Package Output*">)
  package-admin-add-binary-package("c:\\DOCUME~1\\Owner\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\pcl-cvs-1.66-pkg.tar.gz" "c:\\XEmacs-21.4.18\\xemacs-packages\\")
  byte-code("..." [latest version installed base-filename full-package-filename package package-get-info-version package-get-info-find-package package-get-info-prop package-get-key :version nil filename t package-get-info category "mule" featurep mule error invalid-state "Mule packages can't be installed with a non-Mule XEmacs" search-failed format "Couldn't find package %s with version %s" syntax-error "No download site or local package location specified." "No filename associated with package %s, version %s" package-admin-get-install-dir string-to-number warn "Installing %s package version %s, you had a newer version %s" "Skipping %s package, you have a newer version %s" throw skip-update string-match "^\\(..*\\).tar.gz$" append match-string 1 ".tgz" never package-get-installedp done (byte-code "Æ0000


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  package-get(pcl-cvs nil nil nil)
  #<compiled-function (pkg) "...(14)" [pui-package-install-dest-dir pkg package-get nil throw done] 5>(pcl-cvs)
  mapcar(#<compiled-function (pkg) "...(14)" [pui-package-install-dest-dir pkg package-get nil throw done] 5> (pcl-cvs))
  byte-code("..." [pui-selected-packages mapcar #<compiled-function (pkg) "...(14)" [pui-package-install-dest-dir pkg package-get nil throw done] 5> t] 3)
  #<compiled-function nil "...(104)" [pui-selected-packages do-install tmpbuf do-delete package-admin-temp-buffer pui-deleted-packages "*Packages-To-Remove*" nil (...) message "Deleting selected packages ..." sit-for 0 mapcar #<compiled-function ... "...(7)" ... 4> "Packages deleted" "*Packages-To-Install*" (...) get-buffer-create buffer-disable-undo erase-buffer "Installing selected packages ..." done (byte-code "ÁÂx\"ÆÃ!" ... 3) pui-list-packages "Packages installed" clear-message error invalid-operation "No packages have been selected!" package-net-update-installed-db] 3 ("c:\\XEmacs-21.4.18\\lisp\\package-ui.elc" . 7985) nil>()
  call-interactively(pui-install-selected-packages)

-- 
Surendra Singhi
http://www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/index.html

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