Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Sorry Barry, yes, I forgot to include the request to cause the windows > installer to not use the InstallScan facility in the SWORD engine. I > had planned to comment on this. > > > The SWORD Engine also supports notification of new modules installed. > This was added many years ago at the request of publishers who asked us > to show their About information upon installation. It is not Windows > specific, but I don't believe we use it on any other platform.
That is interesting. Yes, the two stage install suddenly makes sense. I still dislike it from the point that not just no other platform makes use of it, but also no other Windows programme AFAICT. at least not BibleDesktop and probably also not BpBible which uses its own module installer, I think. > Basically this has the effect that after installing standalone books, > the next time you run any application compiled against the SWORD C++ > engine, you will be prompted with something like: "Found New Module: > XXXX" followed by the About for that module. > > This may not be a requirement any longer by any publisher. I can't even > remember who originally asked for this. > I had some similar requests, but I negotiated them away, telling them this is physically impossible. The joys of ignorance :-) Practially I guess the about screen and distribution conditions could be put into an NSIS installer, similar as the GPL is often shown as a click through. That would satisfy the requirement if it still exists anywhere. Peter _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
