I suspect displaying the readme for checkbox #2 has more value than
displaying the license. Very few users know or care about open source
license details, and even fewer would care about this if they are
installing a new release of something they've already installed. The
readme, particularly if it has the details about what has changed, would be
useful.
Rick
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Based on the discussion about having the Windows installer offer the
> option of creating a Desktop icon, I investigated what capabilities NSIS
> provides in this area and have updated the installer as I'll explain below.
>
> The 'Finish' page is the last page the installer shows. The previous
> installer always showed this page, with only the 'Finish' button active and
> basically said: "Open Object Rexx 4.2.0.9723 has been installed on your
> computer. Click Finish to close this wizard.
>
> NSIS provides 3 additional controls which can be optionally added to
> provide 'actions' that the user can elect to take place. I've added
> working code for all 3 of these controls.
>
> Since the concept of giving the user the option of invoking some action at
> the finish of the installation was not on my radar screen to begin with,
> the basic question is what, if any, the actions should be?
>
> The 3 controls are 2 check boxes and a hyper-link. Here is what the
> current installer has / does. Note that the labels for the 3 controls can
> be anything, the 'actions' for the second and third control are just
> something I picked to get the code working, and we don't need to include
> the second or third control at all.
>
> 1 chkBx Create Open Object Rexx Desktop Shortcut
>
> 2 chkBx Show Open Object Rexx License
>
> 3 hypLnk Getting Started with Windows Open Object Rexx
>
> #1 If checked by the user creates an icon on the Desktop that links to the
> Open Object Rexx start menu group. Which is pretty much the consensus of
> the discussion on this to begin with.
>
> #2 If checked by the user, this displays the CPL license in notepad.
> This is purely filler to get the code working. Typical installers have
> this as Show the Read Me file. We could have this as showing any file,
> open a PDF file, open up an URL in the user's browser. Or it could start
> an interactive tutorial, if some one wrote one. It could start an example
> program, it could run rexxcps. Or ...
>
> #3 This currently is a web page link and opens:
> http://www.rexxla.org/rexxlang/rexxtut.html
>
> That page has the title: Introductory Rexx Tutorial - SHARE, Spring 1997
> Which I just picked from a Google search of "Rexx beginners tutorial"
>
> What the content for #2 and #3 is up for others to decide and if we use
> them or not to begin with.
>
> Oliver indicated he was too busy for this release, but that he might work
> on a tutorial in the future. We wouldn't have to include #2 this release,
> it could be reserved for a future implementation. Or included but changed
> to something else in the future.
>
> My purpose was mainly to get the functionality working, so that the option
> of using it is open for anyone to exploit.
>
> I'm attaching snapshot of the Finish page. Not sure if it will be
> stripped or not.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
>
>
>
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