From: Bram Moolenaar, Tue, March 02, 2010 10:09 am > > I would very much appreciate if the installer does everything that the > "old" MS-Windows installer does. Then we can finally get rid of the > consoles popping up.
Unfortunately the default Vim installer has one "feature" that the Nullsoft installer can not perform: command line operation. The current GUI Vim installer is actually a combination of two different installers, a Nullsoft GUI wrapper around a custom binary command line utility. The popups are caused by the Nullsoft portion calling the command line one. There's no way around them without completely abandoning the command line utility. I'm still a little vague as to why a command line installer is useful on Windows, a platform never intended to have a terminal interface in the first place. And for anybody who insists on installing in a Command Prompt, they ought to know enough about Vim to install it without a program, after all, you just copy the files and fire off a .reg or two. (Which is all an installer does anyway.) > The Gvim installer deserves some modernizing. But we still have people > working in a console, thus we need to be able to type "vim file" and > have the installed vim.exe executed. There might be something else that > a few users need. I can appreciate this, having a command line version of Vim still has plenty of purpose. That's why I am considering re-including it in the Cream + Vim installer. Even though most Cream users probably won't care, it would ensure the Cream version supplies all the functionality that our non-Cream installer has. > We also need to make sure everything works under Windows 7. I ran into > some problems myself but haven't found time to look into it. I don't have access to this platform yet, so any testing would have to be by others. Windows always was pretty good about backwards compatibility though, and Nullsoft claims compatibility with 7, so I don't expect any problems with our installer. (Anybody here use a Cream-generated gVim installer on Windows 7 that can report?) -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ] -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
