Here's Richmond, the retro, reactionary pain in the b., and the way he
sells software:
First caveat: I do not sell my software in large quantities (anyone for
Sanskrit?).
Having "played" with the demo a potential customer has to contact me,
and then
put the fee into my PayPal account.
The demo is downloadable from my website.
Once I see the fee I run off a standalone (for whatever platform they
request) with a
clear label on the front card with their name, title and so on, upload
it to my Dropbox
account and send them the link.
This normally involves 15-30 minutes of my time.
So: no code-signing, no "nuffin". Crude, but it works.
Richmond.
On 1/21/17 9:43 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
Sorry to witter on after I’ve asked this list a lot about code signing etc so
often. The excellent help I’ve had has enabled me to sign both the app I want
to distribute and its installer - in fact I’ve done this twice, once for the
Mac version of this app and once for the Windows version.
The intention is to sell the product by offering a download from a web site,
using FastSpring for the payments, and incorporating Jacque Gay’s Zygodact to
provide unique activation keys.
All this works fine, except for the Windows download, where Norton, Chrome and
even Windows 7 all attempt to prevent either the download or the execution of
the installer. Again with advice from this list, I know where some of the
problems lie (though not the one with Windows, which reports the installer as
having an ‘unknown publisher’ but later displays the publisher provided during
the code signing!).
My question is, what do other people do about this? If you generate a new
desktop program for Windows and try to sell it as a download, how can you strip
away all this nonsense for the average purchaser? So far all I can think of
doing is to issue a warning on the web site that explains what do do if Norton
‘quarantines’ the program. Even this does not cover all the obstacles in the
poor purchaser’s way.
Doesn’t this affect everyone trying to offer a new executable download?
[noise of grinding teeth…]
TIA for any further views.
Graham
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