After several months during which I have been too busy to change this, it hasn't changed. If the user runs the small installer, it will tell them they need to download the other installer. I haven't made this automatic because it is a kludge: if the installer itself automatically downloads and runs the other installer, then the user will be asked a second time for the install directory, etc. That sucks. Fixing it involves learning NSIS properly as opposed to just the bare minimum.
Learning NSIS properly involves time I simply don't have, still. I've repeatedly tried to encourage other devs to get stuck into the wininstaller stuff but nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole. NSIS is not great. It is not particularly logical. If I had time the time to get the wininstaller right using NSIS I'd actually be better off rewriting it using Microsoft Installer tools instead. The installer has been around for a long time and its NSIS roots are getting very very ugly. How about renaming freenet-java-webinstall.exe to freenet-webinstall.exe? There, that fixes the problem. Now there's only one version. d ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of development issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 10:54 AM Subject: [freenet-dev] Windows Installers [yet again] > After several months we are still deliberately complicating the > installation process for Windows users by having separate Java and > non-Java installers. Our users simply shouldn't have to know what Java > is to use Freenet, let alone know whether it is installed on their > computer, or what version is installed. > > Can whoever broke this please fix it? > > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
