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Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:41:41 GMT
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:05:40 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com>
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> Steve Bliss wrote:
> > Did I mention un-install support, Windows-system-file versioning
> > support, pre-checking for available disk space, and the possibility of
> > releasing incremental updates?
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> 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.
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> 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?
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 it at my VB project
file, and it figures out what run-times and OCX's and etc. it needs. It
is full of configuration options, but they are fairly well organized,
and you flip through three different UI's, from Wizard, to
tabbed-organized properties, to direct editing of the scripting
language.
I also used Wise to write an autorun.exe for a CD we made, where the
user could choose to install one of several different browser plug-ins.
Once I figured out the dialog editor, it worked really well -- the
autorun.exe ended up being 407K, which isn't bad considering that it
included 456K worth of fonts being installed.
I'm still looking at the SmartPatch feature, but I don't think I'll like
that as much; I'll let you now for sure in a few days.
And I haven't played at all with Web-deployment features.
> 1. I guess this means I can't get upset at people who quote a whole message
> just to say "me too"! :-,
In this case, it was worth saying.
Steve
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| By the way I took a look of what takes that much space in ldao and it happens that it is mostly the vb6 virtual machine and the comctl.ocx. Since those are already correctly installed in the system of all those who used the previous install you (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I agree. (1) (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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