OpenEuphoria

Re: bloated 2.5

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Nov 18, 2004
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Patrick Barnes wrote:

> 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.

Maybe this would be useful, maybe not. For preventing registry
association changes it is not necessary.

> 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.

INNO let us do it, as I previously wrote (see thread Euphoria 2.5 alpha).

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Regards,
   Juergen

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