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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:15:27 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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	(michael-ring AT t-online DOT de)
Subject: Re: new setup.exe in cvs!
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> I tried it a few minutes ago, WOW! Looks nice! I am impressed.

Thanks!

> Here my 10 Cents: (one important, 2 cosmetic)

Feel free to help write code... ;-)

> /usr/lib, /usr/bin and / are registered in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, this
> will break tools (like inetutils) which need to see the mounts in the
> context of hkey_local_machine. (Corinna, please correct me if I am
> wrong on this)

I'm thinking that in the dialog where you specify the root mount,
there should be a "system/user" option, which controls mount points,
start menus, etc.  Obviously, greyed out if the user isn't privileged.

I think the old setup used the user mount table too.

> If I choose 'install from the internet' a mirror of latest is
> created on my harddisk.

Not quite.  It only downloads the files it actually needs, but it does
preserve the directory structure that it found them in.  This "trick"
allows setup to read a previously-downloaded mirror or CD-ROM, since
the directory structure is the same.  Plus, the download-only option
acts like a mirror program, copying the structure and skipping files
it already has.

The old setup did the same thing, but removed them all right before
exiting.

> So, the problem is either:
> The text 'Install from Internet' should be renamed to 'Download to
> current directory and install'
> 
> or
> 
> setup should download one file at a time to %TMP% , install it and
> then remove the file after successful installation.
> If the user hits Cancel during installation the file in %TMP% should
> be deleted.

I think just removing the files at the end of setup would be
sufficient.  The longer text would only confuse people, and the
download-at-a-time option makes the code logic more complex,
especially since the same code that does that handles the
download-only and install-only options.

You'd also have dueling dialogs as they switched from download to
install and back.

> (( I cannot choose direct connection, only ie5 settings. (O.K. this is
> perhaps a todo I found;)))

Right.  It's listed in the README also.