[Adding gnuclient_setup, removing Netinstall and InstallShield from website] (was: Announcements)

[Adrian Aichner]

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

> Dear XEmacs friends,
>
> I plan on releasing XEmacs-21.4.21 this weekend.  At this point, I
> don't think I will be adding any major new patches to the source tree,
> but I will be reviewing my entire queue of unapplied patches, so if
> there's a patch *you* want to lobby for, please feel free to drop me a
> line.
>
> I recently made a new gnuclient_setup window kit.  This version has a

Thanks Vin, it works great for me!

I would like to make it easy from the XEmacs website to fnd 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/

Vin, do you want to copy/mv
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/windows/testing/XEmacs_Setup_21.5-b28-2007-09-26.exe
over to
http://ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/binaries/win32/InnoSetup/

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?

Perhaps it's time to remove the information about the outdated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?

----

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)

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   
---------------------------

Adrian

> few improvements:
>   1. The installation process is a little bit cleaner, with fewer windows.
>   2. The uninstall process tries harder not to leave behind any traces
> of the installed kit.
>   3. The modifications to site-start.el attempt to be a little more
> careful not to disrupt an existing XEmacs installation.
>   4. The kit now allows the user to add gnuclient to the SendTo menu.
>
> Regards,
>   Vin

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Adrian Aichner
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