On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 05:24, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:39:11PM +0100, Toad wrote: > > We have two links, one to the file with the JVM bundled, one to the one without it. > > And I was told that the one without it will automatically fetch and run > > the one with it if there is no JVM. > > What is moronic, if what you say is true, is confusing the user by > making both installers available when one of them will do the job of > both.
That's a valid point. I was unaware of the 'auto-download-and-install-java' version of the Fred installer exe. Forgive me, but I've been on Linux so long that I can hardly tell a Windows box from a Commodore 64 these days ;p But from what little time I do spend running within my VFAT partitions, I have seen some 'webstaller' apps - a nice little 200k binary that you think contains the whole prog, but while running, phones home and downloads/installs the *real* program. The Epsilon Minuses are probably quite used to this - they don't even know what 'phoning home' means, and are probably grateful for the extra automation (even when M$ compulsory auto update gives M$ full root access to their drives). So having a single windows installer exe for fred, that auto-downloads and auto-installs Java if a usable JVM isn't found, is by far the superior approach. Cheers David _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
