Re: [Opencd-devel] Installer Program Ideas

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

Hi,

Thanks Martin :)

So, I've tested Martin's HTML-test:  

In IE it asks whether to save or run, so we need to instruct people to
select run, but this can be done very nicely with a page giving install
instructions, with a screen grab of that window and a red arrow, right? 
:)

In Mozilla I just saw the contents of the bat file, which I guess is
less useful.  This is of course a problem, because once people have
installed Mozilla and made it their default, nothing else will install
:~0

But I still like this for several reasons:

1.  It's quick and easy.  It gives a good place to start for the 1st
version.  Lots of people can easily make contributions in HTML.

2.  Lots of documentation found in HTML can be integrated easily, as can
screen grabs, etc.

3.  Once made for Windows, it can easily be copied over to Mac.

4.  It's easy to update from version to version.

5.  We can easily link to the online reasources seamlessly.

6.  I guess we should be easily get plenty of help from the Mozilla or
Beonex people to make a limited version that runs off the CD and
launches executables without complaint.  With such an engine in the
future, we could have the same web design for the installer and the
public web page.


- Henrik

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