OpenEuphoria

Re: bloated 2.5

• Posted by "Unkmar" <L3Euphoria at bellsouth.net> Nov 18, 2004
• 510 views

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Davis" 
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: bloated 2.5


> 
> posted by: Ed Davis <ed_davis2 at yahoo.com>
> 
> Chris Bensler wrote:
> 
>>Now you've gone and completely turned the table Robert. Give us
>>our console-based installer back.
> 
> I think that for the effort involved, that it would not be worth
> the time for him to maintain two installers.  If you are a
> seasoned user, the windows installer should not cause any
> problems.

Right.
It SHOULDN'T !!!
But it DOES !!!
(Angry Face)

>>Third, PUT SOME EFFORT INTO YOUR INSTALLER!! Don't you know that
>>everybody judges a book by it's cover, despite the cliche? The
>>setup is extremely undesirable. Especially for seasoned users. I
>>have to resort to installing new copies of Euphoria on an
>>alternate machine, and manually copy it over to my workstation,
>>because I don't want it mucking up my custom eu environment.
> 
> It took me all of 1 minute to reset the environment variables to
> what I wanted. Big deal.

There are more changes than just environment variables.
REGISTRY Association changes.

    unkmar