> Now, I'm still new, and can't do GUI yet, but I was wondering....
how hard
> would it be to write a simple installer for windows? None of that
fancy INI
> and registry crapp, just a very simple file copier to, oh lets say,
My
> Documents?

Its not hard, but its not easy either to do it right.
And given the profusion of installers already available
ranging from free to expensive there really is little
point in writing something that probably won't be as
good as the already available alternative.

Remember user expectation, if you write an installer you
should also provide an uninstaller, and link it to the
Control Panel Add/Remove applet. Its no coincidence that
python uses a commercial (Wise) installer for the
Windows distro...

> This isn't a waste of your or my time is it?

No, its a valid question even if the answer is that its probably a bad
idea!

Alan G.

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