On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 16:19 +0100, Sophie Gautier wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 15:52 +0100, Sophie Gautier wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm finishing to update the FR install guide and some of our users ask > >> for more informations about msi database and parameters. So I ask about > >> them on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Ingo kindly answered. > >> I think you may be interested by this informations too, the thread is here > >> : > >> http://installation.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=972 > >> > > > > I am aware. My thoughts on this are that teaching people to use Orca to > > modify msi files is beyond the scope of what openoffice.org should be > > doing. If we get into this mess I think we are asking for trouble. I > > have replied to one fellow on users with a pointer to MSDN and maybe > > that is all we should have in any of the guides. If I recall correctly > > we do have a reference in the PDF to Orca usage. I have discovered > > though that xpdf does not honour the link whereas acroread does so > > perhaps spelling out the link would be a good idea. In the end though is > > it our job to train Windows administrators on the use of Windows tools. > > In my opinion it is not our job beyond providing the reference. > > I mostly agree with you :) > But providing some simple informations to perfom a custom installation > using few parameters and properties help a lot as several of our users > were using silent script we provided with 1.x and feel alone now.
How much more can we stuff in? Maybe the following as was as expanding the current link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/property_reference.asp > > > > BTW, your openoffice.org alias is broken. You should update it. I tried > > copying this and other messages to you only to have them come back. > > You're using a wrong alias, the good one is sgauti@ : my provider in > Burkina Faso didn't allow for more characters so I couldn't have a > sgautier@ address ;) > Oh! okay. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
