OpenEuphoria

Re: bloated 2.5

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

>> 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.

Agreed.

>>>  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.

That's why I provided a sample INNO script for that purpose, together
with the regarding ready to try installation program.

Regards,
   Juergen