Google Groups hiccuped, and may have devoured my reply. Just in case, I am re-writing it.
On Jun 17, 10:07 am, "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do know that these installer problems are tiresome, and they often > create more trouble for users than the installer is worth. I also > know that I'm not qualified to fix installer problems. > > Anyone have any idea what to do about this mess? Since I never delivered the revised NSIS-based Windows installer that I was working on, you would be entirely within your rights to discount what I write now, but here goes. Let me know what you want me to do. The revised installer is almost finished. It runs on Windows XP Professional; I had no access to Windows Vista for testing. It correctly handles Leo 4.3 and Leo 4.4, and works with Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. It checks for a Python that is installed for the current user, and then it checks for a Python installed for all users. It installs a copy of Leo for the current user only if it finds a copy of Python that is available to that user only. It installs a single copy of Leo for all Windows users when it finds a copy of Python that is available to all users. Installing for the current user only might appear to be of limited importance, but consider how I used it: I created a couple of Windows users for testing the installer, and was able to test with multiple versions of Python, multiple installation scenarios... without breaking the set-up that I used for compiling the installer. I gather that the installers for Leo 4.5 and Leo 4.6 are written in Python. If you think the Python-based installer is worth continuing I will be happy to share what I learned in my work on the NSIS-based installer. If you think it would make more sense to pick up the NSIS installer, a bit of work with my revised version may bring it into the current era. I gather that one of the goals of the switch to the Python-based installer was to install Leo as a package. I expect that it ought to be possible to use NSIS to drive that intelligently, too. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
