On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:13:51 -0700, Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[helpful info, for which thanks, then...]
I'm not sure what you mean about Multiplatform Installer. Each OS has different installation requirements so shouldn't you use an installation technique appropriate for that platform?
I was imagining putting the app on a single ISO 9660 CD, and then letting the user take things from there depending on what he sees on the desktop (essentially one of 2 standalones, each with a different engine). So really there will be at least two installers, I admit (3 if Unix is to be used, but not in my case). I guess I was muddling the install process itself (which must always be platform dependent) and the actions of the app, which I want to consist of a single code base which just finds out at runtime which platform it's on. If one can eliminate any external installer (I now think one can't), then in that sense the app and its install process would both be multiplatform. I expressed myself badly.
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:06:53 +1030, "Monte Goulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It depends what your market is to what the norm may be. If you are marketing to individual/home users you probably won't have any problem with this issue but if you are going to the education market or medium to large business you will run into this. If you are a system administrator at a school the last thing you want is students installing anything they want onto the systems.
Yup, that's my market, more or less. The kids in this case are pretty young, but experience suggests that they will be frighteningly computer-competent.
All in all, I think I just have to accept that after the wonderfully smooth process of creating a standalone from within RR, the development brakes then get jammed on while the developer struggles with setting up the installation process. C'est la vie.
Thanks again.
Graham
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