I'm against an installer as well...or at least against a *required* installer. The current mechanism is awesome and can really only be improved by making the configuration settings location configurable.
However, I can see how an installer would be required by those people who can't think or by one of those companies/magazines/whatever that have a checklist for all reviews or purchasing decisions that have a little box that says 'installer'. You can't convince most of these people that you don't need an installer. I'd suggest keeping things the way they are, but provide a little GUI app that takes a java home location and an install path and copies the bits to that location. Simple and satisfies everyone. -- Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Eap-list] Ariadna > > > hi folks, > > think about, if there will be a real installer, the > insatllation process > becomes more easy for non professionals, you don't believe it > but there are so many peaople how don't konw what winzip is for. > so for a installer +1000000 > maybe in the next version, which comes after ariadna :) > but i want to go a step further, what do you thought about a launcher, > i mean, if there was a mousewhell.dll for win, why there is no > launcher, i really hate the dos-box, which will stay everytime i use > IDEA, and yes i changed the java_exe in the batch file to javaw, > but this is not the best solution. so what about a native launcher? > what about a prepocessor like C/C++, wouldn't be this feature > a real benefit, against all other ide's. yes i know, IDEA has so many > features, that other ide's don't have, but something like > this, will be > the overkill. think about it. > > greetz, ercano > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
