2015-09-10 17:44 GMT+02:00 食肉大灰兔V5 <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > The first reason I think is that the original WinPcap uses the NSIS > installer, as Npcap tries to keep as much as possible with WinPcap, Npcap > also uses NSIS. Moreover, Nmap also uses NSIS. As for why don't use MSI, I > think this is because open-source projects (like WinPcap, Npcap, etc) tend > to not use commercial software (like MSI). There should be some reasons > about this. >
Nowadays there is an open source project named WiX allowing you to create MSI. But it requires you to create a brand new installer from scratch, and it seems to be more complex to use (at least that's my first feeling but people are reluctant to learn new things ;) ). Cheers, Pascal. > > Cheers, > Yang > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Petr Lázňovský <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Maybe dubm question, but why not create MSI package, de-facto standard in >> installations for windows? >> >> L. >> >> > Presumably the issue comes from the NSIS EnvVarUpdate macro used by >> Npcap installer when having a long %PATH% variable, as explained here: >> > http://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1046/ >> > and >> > >> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Environmental_Variables:_append%2C_prepend%2C_and_remove_entries >> >> > Looks like the method used to update it should be changed... >> >> > Pascal. >> >> >> >> > 2015-09-10 10:18 GMT+02:00 食肉大灰兔V5 <[email protected]>: >> >> > Hi, >> >> >> > Like the installer said: "Npcap detected you have installed WinPcap, in >> order to Install Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible Mode, you must uninstall >> WinPcap first.". So I would suggest you uninstall WinPcap first before >> trying Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible Mode. >> >> >> > Cheers, >> > Yang >> >> >> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Petr Lázňovský <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > This option is inactive, see screenshoot. >> > >> > L. >> > >> >> > So you should ALWAYS has "Install Npcap in WinPcap API-compatible >> Mode" option checked when installing Npcap (which is the default option). >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Winpcap-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users >> > >> >> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Winpcap-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Winpcap-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Winpcap-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.winpcap.org/mailman/listinfo/winpcap-users > >
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