Windows DMD installer

BCS ao at pathlink.com
Tue Jun 30 12:47:54 PDT 2009


Reply to Ary,

> 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.

Oh, it's one of the kind of installer I have no use for. Sorry missed that 
bit.

Given that this is just good enought "for the initial version", maybe he's 
thinking it as a base for an installer that actually has the needed data 
in it.





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