OpenEuphoria

Re: [WIN] The installer

• Posted by Travis Beaty <travisbeaty at arn.net> May 05, 2001
• 407 views

Howdy!

Mr. Bensler wrote:

> I suggested this already, but..
>
> Why not design it as an online installer?
>
> The users could choose which components they want to install, and they
> would always get the lastest version, because you could use a cfg file
> that is accesed online, to store the locations of the latest copies of
> the various components..
>
> Then the installer would be much smaller, as the user would initially
> only have to download the installer itself.
> The actual dowload size, would depend on what components they want
> installed..
>
> This way, you could also allow for many more optional components..

I am in communication with Mr. Broker concerning this, as I don't have the
Internet programming skills to pull something like that off.  So he, or
y'all, would need to whip up that kind of functionality for the installer.

One of the big concerns I have about an "Internet" type install is
installing on machines which are not connect to the Internet.  When I first
downloaded Euphoria, I did it from the public library, saved it to disk,
then hand-carried it to my old 486.  Had the installation program required
that I get on the Internet, I probably would have deleted it right then and
there, as it would be of no use to me.

What I would suggest instead is having a separate program which can be
optionally installed with the rest of the package.  Once the user has
installed Euphoria, they can run the "Check for Update" program to make sure
all their installations are up to date.  As far as getting more optional
programs, perhaps a "Get more Goodies" program which can fetch and/or
install more applications.  In this way, the non-Internet users get the
package, and the Internet capable machines can get in more goodies as well.
Thus everybody is happy.

Along that vein, I'm also planning on offering a Windows distribution in
which the main euphoria.dat file is broken up into disk-sized chunks ...
sort of like Sun does when downloading Java.  (But God forbid this puppy
should end up being 30+M ... Geez)

Feedback is good.  The Grand Euphorium is all-knowing, all-wise.  
Please continue.

-- Travis --