Hi everybody I looked for some ML archives and wiki pages but did not found any specific information related to Windows folders' definitions. So I react to the new installer I saw when installing m9.
Under Windows, using the standard installation, nothing has changed, so it's great. But Custom install has a strange path, say C:\Program Files (abbr. C:\PF). It's very disturbing for the advanced user using advanced installation mode or for administrators customizing installs for corporate environments As an advanced user using custom install, I added OOO-DEV3 to the path, because I don't want OOo to install at the root of C:\PF. The Windows standard is to show the path where main files will be installed. Here it should be C:\PF\OOo-dev 3.0 which is where the executales files are located. For what I see, the 3 paths now are (starting from C:\PF): - OOo-dev 3.0 - OpenOffice.org\Basis 3.0 - OpenOffice.org\URE The Windows Installation scheme should have driven to put - C:\PF\OOo-dev 3.0 as default installation folder The low-level paths: - URE in C:\PF\Common Files\URE if we can consider URE is not depending on OOo (since it should be the same coming from any program using URE via the LGPL license). - Basis in C:\PF\Common Files\OpenOffice.org\Basis 3.0 IMHO, URE should have a version humber also (maybe like URE\1.0, URE\1.2, etc) since installing side by side OOo3 and StarOffice24 (in some years) will lead to different UREs and those should live together. By the way, since OOo 1.1.5, I always installed my stable verison in C:\PF\OpenOffice.org (whatever the version). From now, I also have 3.0 folders in it... Wow! Any pointer to what and how paths were defined and may or may not be discussed welcomed. Regards Mathias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
