OpenEuphoria

Re: bloated 2.5

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Nov 18, 2004
• 529 views

> 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.

True, but there will always be those who want the installer to do
something differently. By providing the files on their own, these
people can install it exactly how they want it, and if something goes
wrong they have only themselves to blame.

> >  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).

Good. But right now, the Euphoria installer doesn't check for
associations before overwriting them - that needs fixing.
-- 
MrTrick