[e-lang] E 0.9.3 release?

[Mark S. Miller]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid at switchb.org> 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.


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    Cheers,
    --MarkM
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