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 Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 7:37 pm Post subject: Nullsoft Installer |
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Anybody ever use the Nullsoft installer?
Anybody want to give tips?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 11:41 am Post subject: |
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whats the nullsoft installer?
my memory tells me its the corporation that made winamp?
why whould you like to use winamp, when you have xmms?
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For those who don't know what it is: http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/
I haven't used this install system in projects I've done though I did evaluate it passingly. Seems pretty cool from what I've seen, though like all the Windows installers it's a cludge around the inherently disorganized nature of Windows installs. I'll take Portage any day. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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cant you just make a .bat script to copy the files to the correct place as in the old days 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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maybe OT? but anyway...
| antonik wrote: | | cant you just make a .bat script to copy the files to the correct place as in the old days |
Ah, but you forget. If the app is of any complexity at all there's that fscking registry to deal with. I think you can do some manipulation from bat files but it is invariably a mess. That and "the correct place" is not always the same from system to system and most of that info is only available from the registry. 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| PowerFactor wrote: | maybe OT? but anyway...
| antonik wrote: | | cant you just make a .bat script to copy the files to the correct place as in the old days |
Ah, but you forget. If the app is of any complexity at all there's that fscking registry to deal with. I think you can do some manipulation from bat files but it is invariably a mess. That and "the correct place" is not always the same from system to system and most of that info is only available from the registry.
Give me /etc anyday over that mess. |
aaah, i see 
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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I think the total mess about the windows registry is that system and applis are mixed all together in it, it would be easier and much more simple to have separate registries, just a though
cd /etc instead of regedit ! |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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the registry sux also becouse the settings are all in i think what two files?
i remember system.dat and user.dat. and one cant open it with say a text editor and edit as one can open say /etc/X11/XF86Config
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If your registry crashes your windows, you need to edit it ... but you can't without windows 
Looks like there is some kind of problem there 
Maybe there is some way of editing it in dos, but hmm lol i'd like to know about
Oh and there is the "no fail" mode lol
Once a friend of mine crashed his windows and the no fail mode was as much crashed ... pff
Oh and btw to answer the main thread, yeah i've seen the nullsoft installer i think it's pretty good If you can't afford the heavy installshield it'll do the work
Like Antonik said though if i would have to install a program i wouldn't even use any installer, i'd just zip everything, and allow the people to extract it where they want and make the links they want. It's much nicer way to code it in my opinion, and when they are fed up about it , they can erase the folder and basta No need to use the registry when you have good ini files |
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