Re: bloated 2.5
Rob: One thing very helpful and easy to do, would be to provide an
alternative to the flashy installer. All it needs to be is a zip
archive of all the necessary files, and a warning next to is saying
"Files only - not recommended for beginners" and problem solved! It
wouldn't increase bandwidth costs much, people would download one or
the other, not both.
I don't like the registry association changes either. Although I
understand that to an absolute newbie being able to open an editor
without understanding window's intricacies is helpful, many people
have associations set up already, and don't want to change them. I
believe that is something that needs to be addressed in the normal
installer as well. When it installs, have it *CHECK* for existing
associations, and ask the user if they want them to be overwritten. If
INNO won't let you do it, use a different installer package, or write
your own.
> > Chris Bensler wrote:
> >>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.
Chris man, while I agree with you on some issues, I seriously think
you need to calm down a little. 2.5 is at *alpha* - yes, it needs some
improvements before being considered finished.
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MrTrick
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