Re: Windows Installer for CLISP

[Elliott S. <ell...@gm...>]

> It installed the base linking set even though
> I left that option unchecked.

The way the installer is set up right now, it just pulls in the files
with one massive file glob, so the installer doesn't actually know the
difference between the two linking sets. It just links all the
shortcuts and file associations it creates to the chosen linking set.
I did this firstly because it was just easier, and secondly because
that's what you get when you install manually from the zip file and
run install.bat. It wouldn't theoretically be that difficult to
change... I just haven't tried yet.

> I wonder if your installer should allow both the base and
> full linking sets to be installed side-by-side if the user wants,
> rather than only allowing one or the other to be selected?

Again, same as above. However, if you wanted to have the installer
remove the linking set that didn't get used, and allow the user to
check both to install both, you would have to have two sets of
options, one for what to install, and one for what to associate. And
that might get a little difficult. Seeing as it only amounts to 8 MB,
it probably isn't worth worrying about it. (If a user really had
*that* little hard drive space they could delete the other linking set
manually.)

> Also, the uninstall did not remove the desktop shortcut that it created.

Hmm... It works fine for me.... Which version of Windows are you on?
Did you choose to install for just yourself, or all users? Would it be
possible for you to export and send me the registry entries under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\GNU CLISP 2.42 when you have it installed?

Also, could you or someone else experiment with using the installer
with multiple users? In particular I am interested in what happens
when one user attempts to uninstall the installation of another user.
When I try it, the uninstaller says it completes, but if you look at
the details of uninstallation, it hasn't actually done anything. I
don't know if this is a feature of NSIS or a bug in my code... but at
the very least I want to know if other people have the same results.

-- 
Elliott Slaughter

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere." -
Frank Herbert