Yep, 10 years ago I was using Installshield to write install routines, and it was pretty hard work. I gave up on Installshield and opted for a free script-based installer which was much easier to use, and the output looked basically the same to the end user.
Isn't is generally accepted that a little bit of developer pain is ok, providing the outcome is better / easier for the end user? Anyway, before this thread runs it's natural course, I'd like to give a +1 for ffmpeg and ffmpeg-php. Once I got it installed, it worked just like the book said it would, and I was plesantly surprised at how fast it is at grabbing individual frames out of movies. If you are doing anything more complicated than the odd Youtube clip here and there, this is well worth looking into (if you have your own box of course). Harvey. Don Gould wrote: > Perhaps it's time you wrote a windows app then did the installer for > it... don't know what they're like now, but 10 years back it could take > days to get the installer set up right to include all the right files > and code so that it would install faultlessly on a windows box. > > Linux is leaping forward much faster than Windows did. I suspect that > install issues will be a thing of the past in 10 yrs. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
