So much for the API-guaranteed compatibility, that's what I can say. This,
and the fact that you actually have to distribute the DLLs with your
installation (instead of using the preinstalled ones by the client software)
made us develop Catapult. What's the use of "common" API for installing if
you actually have to carry it out in case it is different in the
destination? Not to mention the size of the installation (which, at least
for us did matter as we prefer to do electronic distribution).
Bobby Kolev
www.beiks.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Laurence Lundblade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:44 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Installing Palm App and conduits.
Actually another question...
We use InstallShield for our installer. We drop the .prc's into the Palm
installer and also configure our conduit. Problem is we need to let the
user pick the sync name. We use the SDK for this and all works fine. The
problem comes for people that have only the 2.0 desktop software. We've
discovered there are a number of them, enough that we want to accommodate
them. The solution we've found is to use some DLLs from the conduit SDK.
So the remaining problem and question is, are us Palm developers allowed to
redistribute that DLL with our installer? It is used only to get the sync
name(s) for user's for the Palm 2.0 desktop.
Laurence Lundblade
Qualcomm Inc.
At 03:23 PM 5/30/00 -0400, Fima Furman wrote:
> What do people typically use to install Palm app and conduits? I
> looked at
>the example with the InstallShield Proefessional Ed. With the price of 995$
>it seems like an overkill for a simple app. Are there alternatives? The
>Install Shield for C++ 6.0 (I currently own) is very limited when it comes
>to calling the outside dll's...
>
>Any feedback will be appriciated,
>
>Thanks,
>Fima.
>
>
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