Alex Perry writes: > I have been wondering whether the Outlook autorun feature > could conveniently be used to assist Windows users who would > like to use FlightGear. They sign up for the mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual and their > start of subscription mail message has a PIF attachment > that autoinstalls FlightGear. Thereafter, whenever we > have a version upgrade, the announcement is copied to that > mailing list ... together with a PIF autorun attachment > that will apply the upgrade without user intervention.
This is a good idea, but I think that we can take it a little further. What if the PIF attachment automatically uninstalled MSFS and installed FGFS in its place? Curt would need to upgrade his server to handle the load, of course, but then we could start sending out the attachment even to people who do not currently use FlightGear, just to ease their transition to Open Source. We should get in touch with Linus and Alan -- they could use this technique to get Linux better established on the desktop as well. All the best, David _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
