On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Peer Sommerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2008/8/14 Tim van der Leeuw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:29 PM, TK Soh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Tim van der Leeuw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> > >> >> [...] >>> >>> > But that's not a request to make on the TortoiseHG mailing list! >>> >>> Why not? >> >> Why not? Well, because it's more a request about the Mercurial installer >> than about TortoiseHG itself. How can I request to devs working on >> TortoiseHG to make a version of their product available that doesn't >> actually install their product? ;-) > > The THG installer installes THG and Mercurial. > > You might request that the THG installer could install only parts of the > system, if not enough privileges were available. > > THG is based on Inno Setup, and a simple script can handle only one > permission level. It is possible with some advanced programming to handle > several permission levels. This is how TortoiseSvn provides an installer > that will work for both admins and non-admins. TSVN uses a WiX installer > which works differently from Inno Setup. > > I would like a THG installer which can handle both permission levels ... but > think it will require a fair amount of knowledge about installation to write > such a thing. multi-permission-level is easy with WiX, but it also requires > effort to rewrite the installer.
I'd like to at least do some research on whether switching to WiX is worth it. Anyone out there already did the comparison between the two (or others)? > Peer > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
