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Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:05:40 GMT
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jsproat@geocities.%stopspammers%com
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> My take on this is that we can identify a group of potential users
> (people who can only use DOS-level tools) who would not be able to use
> tools which take up 2.5MB in the uber-download file. So it might be
> worth the additional overhead (our time and headache) to maintain a
> separate install file, without the Win32 stuff.
> But the 10% savings to drop out the DOS-tools would not be worth having
> a spare install, IMO.
I agree. (1)
> Did I mention un-install support, Windows-system-file versioning
> support, pre-checking for available disk space, and the possibility of
> releasing incremental updates?
You've done this before, haven't you? Man, what a headache. :-P This is
why I don't write the install code at work.
I have learned one thing: avoid avoid avoid InstallShield! How do you like
the Wise install tool? Would it be able to handle all of this? Do you need
a run-time license to use it?
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. I guess this means I can't get upset at people who quote a whole message
just to say "me too"! :-,
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| | I'm sorry Dave, but Abort, Retry or Fail?
|o| Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
|_| http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
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 | | Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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| (...) I like Wise very much. I don't *think* I've used InstallShield, maybe I tried once. Anyway, I know I don't want to try it. I've mostly used Wise to package VB apps, but it works really well, and very easily. With the new version, I just point (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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| (...) Just to create some facts & data to work from, I created zip files containing various parts of the whole LDraw family. Here's what I got: Original LDraw and all parts: 2.1MB +DOS tools: 2.3MB +Win32 tools: 4.8MB (not including L3PAO & its (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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