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Dave Korn wrote:

>   I'm taking a quick browse through the code.  I see that you've based it on
> chunks of the core setup.exe code, somewhat refactored and restructured.  I
> wonder if we couldn't merge the two codebases, in such a way that there's one
> common 'setup engine' with a couple of alternative GUI front-ends; that might
> be a neat way to fix up all the missing features and make sure there is
> thoroughly consistent behaviour between the two different installers.  You
> know your own code better than I do - do you think that would be practical?

As long as the command-line options don't go away you can do
whatever you want with the front end :-)

Ralph

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