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Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:16:27 GMT
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On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:26:19 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com>
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> Steve Bliss wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:26:58 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Which would basically be "download LDRAW.EXE and all the LCAD updates"
> > And (potentially) splitmpd, l3p, and ldscript. Any others I'm
> > forgetting?
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> I personally don't use these tools. Thus, I would be unlikely to want to
> download them if I were surfing via modem.
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
support files)
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.
> Hmmm... I might be muddling things. My point is this: Let the main
> archive, parts updates, and separate tools be available separately as well
> as in a big install.
Yes, that would best.
> > How does this sound, for a full-blown, Windows-based install script:
> > [...]
> > I wonder how you prevent duplicate entries in autoexec.bat?
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> This could all be easily implemented in a Perl script. A minimal Perl
> engine, uncompressed, will fit on a 1.44 Mb floppy.
Did I mention un-install support, Windows-system-file versioning
support, pre-checking for available disk space, and the possibility of
releasing incremental updates?
Steve
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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)
| | | Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)
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| (...) Which DOS tools are these? I don't remember any being particularly large... (...) Same for this... LDAO is 2.something Mb, right? What's the rest? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) I personally don't use these tools. Thus, I would be unlikely to want to download them if I were surfing via modem. Hmmm... I might be muddling things. My point is this: Let the main archive, parts updates, and separate tools be available (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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