Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Tux Paint 0.9.15 build army! - What's your status!?

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:04:27PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On 11/3/05, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:26:49AM +0000, John Popplewell wrote:
> 
> > > One issue is that the stamps installer
> > > is nearly 15MB, which makes testing release candidates a bit annoying,
> > > and that's a big download on a dialup line.
> >
> > Indeed!  Wow, I didn't realize it got so huge!  Have we ran pngcrush on
> > the collection of PNGs recently? ;)
> 
> I really don't get with this Windows idea of building an installer
> when a plain old *.zip file would do, especially for a simple
> collection of data files. It's not as if data files require registry
> keys to associate stuff with them.
> 
Where did I install that program again? The stamps installer checks
registry keys to find Tux Paint which means the end-user doesn't have to
think.

The installer is slightly smaller than the data files, zipped, because
it uses better compression than zip.

> The www.sysinternals.com people manage to do whole programs
> without big and complicated installers. If anybody should know the
> best way to do things, it's probably them.
Depends what you mean by big and complicated. It's easy to install a
program when you have administrator or power-user access, a bit more
complicated when you are a restricted user.

> 
> I think every Windows system can extract a *.zip file now.
> The feature was added to the OS, and prior to that everyone
> was installing WinZip.
> 
I usually make a zip file version of Tux Paint and the stamps for the
people who want control over what happens/don't like installers and are
confident about extracting zip files to the right place.

As far as I can tell, most end-users on Windows like installer-based
software, as long as it just works.

Anyway, I'll get back to it tommorrow probably,

cheers,
John.


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