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Post by milipili » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:00 pm

A new ticket has been opened about a Windows installer for TA3D :
http://trac.ta3d.org/ticket/3

I would much appreciate your comments on this forum about the choice of a Windows installer.
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Post by zuzuf » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:24 pm

At university we use NSIS to package a software we've created for internal use. I have made the last package and I got several problems with write permissions to c:/windows/system32 if I need to install file there, and in some rare cases when I don't need to ...
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Post by milipili » Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:42 pm

Write in the %WINDIR%\system32 needs admin privileges and it might not be related to NSIS. Consequently an admin account. It should work without any problems in this way.

Anyway TA3D should never have to write in this folder.
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Post by Balthazar » Sun Jun 29, 2008 8:00 am

Well, Win32 installer is a nice idea, and a don`t really see the difference beetwen them, since all the task it should currently perform is just to extract data to specified folder. :D

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Post by zuzuf » Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:33 am

it should also allow you to uninstall it using your OS package manager :)
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Post by milipili » Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:27 pm

All of them do that, don't worry. :)
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Post by milipili » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:25 pm

I created a NSIS Script (the installer should take around 25Mo). It still need improvements, especially to not copy .svn folders (if someone knows how to do it...), and to not completly remove the folder $INSTDIR\TA3D when other mods are present.
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