Re: RedyCode 0.9.2 released
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Jul 04, 2016
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Can i make a heartfelt plea that you do not avoid Installshield, Inno Setup, etc?
You can make the plea, but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea. 
So the not Hardcore Developers, the not Admin users, the not i "I know everything and more " user also have a chance to try your Redy.
I think a tool like FreeExtractor fits the bill here.
Or maybe http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
And have a chance to install and remove 'Redy'.
Some time last month, I spent over two hours trying to get a corporate InstallShield sfx to install. There was a GUID conflict, so it thought it was already installed - but the other program was one that was vital to business needs and could not be uninstalled, even for a moment.
I managed in the end, but it took quite a bit of registry hacking to get this to work.
If ryanj goes the InstallShield route, I would not be surprised to find that many users give up simply because they can't install it - and can't figure out why it doesn't work.
And no, I'm not the only one who has ever had to deal with this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4940701/installshield-le-another-version-of-this-product-is-already-registered
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=69674
I wouldn't be surprised to find that this is actually a very common problem.
If you work in a big company upx,sfx files are a nogo. Every Virusscanner will mark them.
I once dealt with a bank that simply would not allow .zip files in emails, period. If it looks like a zip file, it was blocked and that was the end of the story. YMMV.
That said, I think you are confusing the .sfx file format ( http://www.rarlab.com/vuln_sfx_html.htm , http://fileinfo.com/extension/sfx ) with the acronym for the general term. FreeExtractor does not create .SFX files, nor does it use the same format as WinRAR - IIUC it uses the zlib library for compression.
