Monday, December 9, 2019

Re: Vim executable for Windows updated

Christian wrote:

> On Sa, 07 Dez 2019, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > As a tryout for the upcoming Vim 8.2 release I created an MS-Windows
> > self-installing binary from the current Vim version. This should be
> > very close to the Vim 8.2 release. Give it a try.
> >
> > This uses the new Windows installer, which is nicer than the old one.
> > It also has translations for a few languages.
> >
> > You can download it from here:
> > https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/vim/pc/gvim81.exe
> >
> > You can find the individual zip archives with runtime files and three
> > versions of the executable in the same directory. See the README file
> > for what is in which archive:
> > https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/vim/pc/README
> >
> > Let me know if you run into any trouble, we want to make sure the Vim
> > 8.2 release doesn't have any problems.
>
> I think it would be nice, if we could sign the resulting official
> installer.

Is that possible for the gvim.exe that I create? Or do we need to pick
the right one from your site? I'm sure many users would prefer a signed
binary. Not sure if it runs everywhere, e.g. on Windows XP? That's why
I have been using MSVC 2015.

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