On 1/21/17 1:43 PM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
My question is, what do other people do about this? If you generate a new desktop program for Windows and try to sell it as a download, how can you strip away all this nonsense for the average purchaser?
One of my clients said she'd had it with Windows installers and now ships the product as a zip file. The user is instructed to move the app folder out of the zip folder. This is just about the only hitch in the process, because Windows presents the zip folder as a regular folder and users think they can just double-click the app inside the zip archive.
Other than instructing naive Windows users to drag the app folder out of the zip archive, there have been virtually no other issues. The signed app itself works fine without interference from the OS.
Windows users have become used to installers and expect them, but if your app is self-contained and doesn't require changing registry keys or other OS-level stuff, it works pretty well. I know that's not what you asked, but that's how we solved it.
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