Re: [Tile-dev] Re: Tile question

[Pat T. <pa...@zs...>]

Michael Kirkham <mi...@mu...> writes:
>
>Speaking of which, would it be desireable to put a Visual Studio
>Installer project for Tile into SF CVS?  The one deterrant I can think
>of is that it doesn't seem to be possible to plug in substitutions for
>things like versions, so the installer would install in a directory
>named "tile" instead of e.g. "tile0.6" unless it was updated.
>
>What this would do: provide a project for building a .msi installer
>for installing tile by its self, and provide a project for building a
>.msm (merge module) file, which can be plugged into other projects to
>build a .msi file (for installing an application with tile).
>
>Otherwise, I'll just put it into my local repository's tile sources.

I don't see any especially good reason to add such an installer. If I
was to do an installer for Windows I'd be using the Nullsoft installer
anyway and what I do use is starkits. Just strikes me as another file
to go stale.

However, I don't exactly have an objection either.

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