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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> > You *don't* want to use a VB-based program as an installer. Before a VB program
> > can run, all the VB-runtime files have to be installed. This means that the
> > setup program has to install multi-megabytes of *system* files before the user
> > sees anything useful. With the possibility of requiring a reboot mid-install.
> > It's *not* pretty.
>
> That is all well and good but remember that is a lot of cases the vb runtime dlls
> are going to be installed anyway, when things like LDAO or the like are installed.
So? In many more cases, the VB runtimes will *not* be installed. And the
not-installed machines are more likely to be run by the technically-un-savvy.
An easy-to-use installer doesn't do any good if it won't run on the majority of
machines.
Steve
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| (...) of (...) I haven't been following this thread to closely, but uh, are you considering machines that are not running Windows. LdGLite 0.4 is due to be released real soon and should run pretty well on Linux and the Mac in addition to Windows. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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