Craig Bradney wrote: > On Monday 13 March 2006 22:03, Philipp Wagner wrote: > >>Hi, >>I have a small suggestion for the Windows installer. Would it be >>possible, to have a check at the beginning of the installer if >>GhostScript (new enough version) and the GDI+-lib is installed and if >>not, grab it from the internet and install it first? A lot of windows >>user are not used to read a page of instructions first before installing >>a software package, so I got already a couple questions from friends to >>explain to them how the installation works (well, some of them didn't >>understand english and so weren't able to understand the instruction >>page on the homepage). > > > I'm not sure exactly what we can do there. We could even include GDI+, but we > decided due to its distribution license, that *distributing it* clashed with > our licenses enough to not do so. You have to go click on their special sign > your life away page, or get it from some other source.. > > We can probably put a check in though.
Well, I do not vote for including GDI+ or GS (it increases the package size without need for most of the people), too. But if the licence GDI+ does not forbid grabbing it from the internet during the installation process and installing it right away (and I don't think it does/could), the scribus installer should grab it without having the user open his browser first and install it manually. GDI+ is not distributed under GPL or any other open source licence, sure, but still I think usability is a higher goal than some ideas of not wanting to "mix" non-open-source with OS-licenced software. There's no win for anyone by not including these two (required/almost required) packages in the installer (including is not distributing it with it, but downloading it if needed). Philipp
