Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Benjamin Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Since Octave does not require anything else than unpacking it (no shell
>> extensions, no registry access, no driver installations, ...), well an
>> installer is nice (I agree) but not essential for usage of the program.
> 
> Well, the installer I wrote does a little bit more than simply unpacking:
> - select components to install, with some auto-detection at startup
> to select reasonable default config
> - detect CPU architecture and auto-select ATLAS
> - write start menu entries and desktop icon
> - write registry entries to hold the install path: this is used by
> add-ons installer to know where octave is installed
> - manage dependencies for octave-forge packages

Yes, I have discovered this in your .nsi script, and I agree, that it is 
quite comfortable, so I used some of your code for the mingw32 installer 
(start menu entries, cpu architecture & atlas).

benjamin

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