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

[Vin Shelton]

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-b28-2007-09-26.exe
> 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 Perhaps it's time to remove the information about the outdated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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