OpenEuphoria

Re: New Install Program

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 23, 2002
• 414 views

Euman writes:
> To everyone who's writing programs in Euphoria I would like
> to extend to you that this installer was NOT writen in Euphoria.

Actually, significant parts of it *were* written in Euphoria:
   * the code that edits AUTOEXEC.BAT
   * the code that generates both the HTML docs 
     and the plain text docs

> If EUPHORIA isnt a toy then why isnt an installer writen in
> EUPHORIA?

I know it's hard to imagine, but there are actually some useful software
tools that weren't written in Euphoria.

A very nice installer could be written entirely in Euphoria.
You know that very well. You've written one in Euphoria for
some company. With a lot of work you could adapt it
to installing Euphoria. However, I don't see any point in
re-inventing the wheel. The INNO installer system is
easy for me to use, well documented, has lots of options,
and gives a nice result. If you want to make and thoroughly test
a better installer, I'll be happy to use it, but I was just warning you
that installers take time to develop and test under all
possible scenarios, on all versions of Windows.

When someone downloads and runs the setup program,
the last thing on their mind is whether it was written in Euphoria.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com