Windows DMD installer

[Ary Borenszweig]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Ary,
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>>
>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For the initial version, I'd be happy if it downloaded the zip
>>>>> file, unzipped it, and set the path.
>>>>>
>>>> Here:
>>>>
>>>> http://downloads.dsource.org/projects/descent/dinstaller/
>>>>
>>>> (I just put it there because I didn't know where else)
>>>>
>>>> Maybe this can be used as the initial source code for the project...
>>>>
>>> Thanks. But I am totally unfamiliar with nsi files, etc. Is there a
>>> makefile or build.bat file?
>>>
>> Even if there were one, you'd need to install NSIS to compile them.
>> It's a language by itself.
>>
>> Why do you need to compile it? There's an exe there. :)
>>
> 
> So he can make generateing new versions part of the build process.

But for that the only thing he need to do is to tell us URLs for the 
latests zip files to download. Then the installer points to those URLs 
and it never needs to change.

Of course he'll need to repoint the URLs to the latest zip files.