Shall we support the autorun feature?

Jerry Haltom jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com
Tue Jan 4 10:27:02 CST 2005


> a) If it's cross platfrom it may very well have multiple install
> scripts, and if WINE is installed by default in the future it would be
> very easy to click install.exe and try and install the windows version
> or similar.

Same problem with autorun. The autorun'd script has to decide which
install script to call out to somehow.

> b) Most CDs are laid out very badly, with big data files strewn in the
> root. It could be very hard to look through 100s of files to find one
> install script one.

I think us working around this would be pretty stupid. We don't even
have vendors yet... so, they'll have to make their CD's usable with
whichever method we decide from this point forwards.

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Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>
Feedback Plus, Inc.




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