On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:27 PM, Chris Morgan wrote:
Comments on the said wiki page about the win32 installer:
- MSI installer, not a good idea.
Actually I think it's a very needed item. More and more, large institutions (universities, companies, etc.) want MSI's. If there is a version for windows that is MSI, then we can get more adoption in those areas.
But *why*? What benefits are there from it? In my experience, there are only disadvantages in the MSI format.
I don't think this might be best for 0.47, but is something to keep in mind. Personally I think it would be good if some group out there could setup up and provide some bodies to actually do the MSI. :-)
I've looked at code for MSI things and I think I could bone up on them enough to do one but I don't want to unless a serious reason for it. I can only think of a couple of instances where open source apps have used MSI packaging... 7-Zip 64-bit is one instance... though I don't understand why - NSIS supports 64-bit just as well. Hey, is there any Inkscapey goodness for 64-bit Windows?
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