I m not an expert but maybe the installer on a bought OpenOffice 3.2 CD from 3rd party distributors is the cause for this.
I think this is a different, unrelated issue towards the exe file or the translation. I am not sure if we can tweak our installer to be able to handle these cases. Am 24. Februar 2020 05:56:13 MEZ schrieb Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com.INVALID>: >At 14:01 23/02/2020 +0100, Peter Kovacs wrote: >>We are discussing from time to time, that it might be worth to >>remove the packaging to the exe completely. >> >>To my knowledge in the past we did create an exe because you could >>not doubleclick msi files. But Microsoft had fixed this for quite >>some time and there is no real reason to keep the exe packaging. >> >>So any objections? > >I'm no expert, but my understanding is that the .msi file is a >database, required just as much during removal of any product as >during installation. My impression is that products such as Microsoft >Office quietly salt away a copy of the .msi file (or as much as is >needed) and Windows uses this when the product is removed. Failing >that, Windows remembers where the .msi file was during installation >and seeks it out, asking for it if necessary. And all this applies >when removal is effected by installing a later version, doesn't it? > >Now the user may have thought (or even been told) that, once the >product is installed, the downloaded files are no longer needed and >may have deleted them. This used to result in a steady stream of >requests to the Users list, asking how the new version can be >installed when the process stalls at this point. Indeed, as recently >as ten days ago, a user trying to install a current version reported >to the Users list "Every time I try I get a message to insert the >Open Office.org 3.2 disk". He must have installed the older version >from a CD - which he may well no longer have. > >Will distributing .msi files result in the same problem to occur >again? Or is OpenOffice now prepared similarly to salt away the >necessary parts of the installation database? If not, what was (and >is) the cause of the problem, please? > >Brian Barker > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
