From: ai26 AT sternwarte DOT uni-erlangen DOT de (Michael Lemke, Sternwarte Bamberg, Phone: +49-951-9522216) Subject: RE: To use or _NOT_ to use InstallShield? 7 May 1998 18:31:23 -0700 Message-ID: <009C5D2E.B3CF97DE.10.cygnus.gnu-win32@sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de> To: EPA AT datcon DOT co DOT uk Cc: gnu-win32%cygnus DOT com AT bamp01 DOT sternwarte DOT uni-erlangen DOT de, ai26 AT sternwarte DOT uni-erlangen DOT de X-Unparseable-Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 10:52:33 MET-1MET DST In a message of Wed, 6 May 1998 09:42:09 +0100 Received on Thu, 07 May 1998 02:20:38 MET-1MET DST Edward Avis wrote to: 'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com' >It's true that to make good use of Cygwin32 you need to know something >about filesystem structure etc. However, I don't see how using >InstallShield is a problem in itself. If you can do something for the >user, instead of having to provide instructions and let them do it >themselves, then why not take the easy route? Well, I don't know what InstallShield does, seriously. But I do know what tar,zip etc do and how to reverse it. I hate things done behind my back. All these .exe files you don't know what's inside. Terrible. > >The installation, with the cygnus.bat placed in the start menu, lets the >user test that everything is working in the "default" configuration before >they go off and start changing things. Fine. But why not do this with a .bat file I can inspect before running it? Then I know what I am doing. > >As a final point, I am sure that this list would be clogged with many more >"how to install this?" questions if Cygnus went back to the old .tgz file >or whatever. > Maybe. So my vote is to do away with InstallShield. Michael -- Michael Lemke Sternwarte Bamberg, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (lemke AT sternwarte DOT uni-erlangen DOT de or michael AT astro DOT as DOT utexas DOT edu) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".