2016-12-03 23:48 GMT+05:00 Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> In the installer, interactive service is tied to the installation of
> automatic service (openvpnserv2) --- if you opt not to install
> openvpnserv2, interactive service is also disabled. You can install
> openvpnserv2 without installing the interactive service, but not the other
> way.
>
> I think we should consider interactive service as a requirement for
> properly running the GUI (note that we do not set the GUI to request admin
> rights anymore). So I suggest:
>
> 1. Always install the interactive service along with openvpn core (and set
> up the required HKLM registry entries) OR at least automatically select
> interactive service if the GUI is selected.
>
> I prefer the first option as that service doesn't do anything unless a
> client connects to its service pipe, and has some uses even without the GUI.
>
> 2. Make it possible to uncheck automatic service (openvpnserv2) without
> unchecking interactive service.
>
> A vast majority of installations would need only openvpn core, the GUI and
> interactive service. Most users will not use the automatic service
> (openvpnserv2) at all. Given that the latter requires .NET 4.0 which means
> an additional 50MB+ download for some, a very slow installation and
> possible restarts, forcing it on to get interactive service is not good.
>
> That said we could still leave openvpnserv2 selected by default as
> changing that at this stage may be unwise. Hopefully many Windows users may
> already have .NET 4.0 or higher installed.
>
thank you very much for your efforts.
however, it seems to get more and more complicated ("what if we install new
version after old version ... and checkboxes are set in different ways...").
what do I suggest, is to simplify things, i.e.
1) add "send installation statistics anonymousely" (we will see checkboxes)
2) run some kind of questionary
@mattock ?
after we get that information, I hope we can either deprecate or even
remove some configuration options and make it more simple. in 2.5 probably ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Selva
>
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