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Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27 |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:41:22 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:
> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> Then it will be easier to implement something in Emacs to check for
>>>> available updates on that platform by looking at that version.
>>
>> PL> Let me know if you don't have enough.
>>
>> Anything else we can do from Emacs to help the user would be good:
>>
>> * check signature of installer (ideally without GnuPG, since installing
>> that on W32 is not easy)
>
> Actually, that's easy since windows does this
> automatically. Unfortunately, it needs the binary to be signed. That's
> straight-forward enough, although I would need a certificate to do this,
> which isn't free (as in beer).
What kind of certificate? <https://letsencrypt.org> offers free as in
beer TLS certificates.
Robert