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Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27


From: Phillip Lord
Subject: Re: Windows Installer for Emacs-27
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:58:24 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux)

Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

A microsoft coding signing one.

Phil





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