Dinstaller 1.005 Released

[Chris Miller]

Lester L. Martin II Wrote:

> Today, 
> I announce the release of DInstaller. It is written in C# just to get everything up to date with the latest dmd, tango, etc. However Mango support was removed  as C# has a way to connect to other applications but I am having a hard time using it predictably. 
> DMD 
> DMD+TANGO 
> DMD+TANGO+TANGOBOS 
> DMD+PHOBOS+TANGO 
> DMD+PHOBOS+TANGO+TANGOBOS 
> DSSS 
> DDBG 
> DFL 
> are all supported. 
> I hope this keeps some people from having to ask the question of how do I install DMD on windows(won't but I always like to hope). 
> Any questions ask them here. 
> download at http://www.dsource.org/projects/dinstaller/browser/downloads/InstallD.zip?format=raw 

I'm not at a Windows machine, so I'll just ask the question instead of experiment for myself.

When I last tried DInstaller (1.004) I had two problems:  First, I couldn't tell where it installed to.  Second, it'd be a lot nicer if it had some documentation on how to use it.

If I remember correctly it installed to my user folder (D:\Users\Lord Sauron\)  I would suggest writing some code to make it fail if it tries to install to a path which has a space in it (since I'm told that it will not function if it does - I haven't stress-tested it to find out though).

As an aside, I'm surprised you're not using a NullSoft Scriptable Installer, which are free, open-source, and open you up to multiple platforms.  I don't use 'em, so I'm not patronizing you, but I'm interested to know why you went with C#.