Re: RFC: Single Windows Installer

Hi John,
             The plugins always get updated with the main tree. We
never release one without the other.

The package that Ryan is offering significantly enhances the user
experience for your users though. They now get a number of really
useful plugins by default including the Open Office and Word Perfect
filters as well as the killer new feature for AbiWord-2.6.

Direct access to http://abicollab.net.

We're very aware and appreciative of your distribution. I think have
the opportunity to increase it by an order of magnitude with
http://abicollab.net.

Cheers

Martin

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, John T. Haller <abiword@johnhaller.com> wrote:
>
> Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks! I've been meaning to unify our three Windows installers into
>> a single one for quite some time, and AbiSource Corporation B.V.
>> recently provided a kick in the pants for me to do so. As you can see
>> in my last couple commits, I now have all the installer bits to package
>> the plugins in the main installer. I have not made this the default,
>> however, as I wanted to just make sure everyone's opinion was being heard.
>>
>> I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out - we can now specify a default
>> set of plugins, so if a user just keeps pounding the next button in the
>> main Abi installer, they automatically get the ODT, WPD, OOXML plugins
>> and a few more that are useful to the general populace and reasonably
>> well-behaved. This is similar to common packaging on Linux, including a
>> clump of plugins if not all of them.
>
> Ryan,
>
> One downside would be if the plugins need updating when AbiWord doesn't. I
> don't know if that happens with AbiWord much but I know it does with other
> open source projects I've worked with.
>
> Also, I'd suggest keeping a plugins-only download available in addition to
> the main installer as otherwise AbiWord Portable users wouldn't be able to
> download and install additional plugins. There are quite a few users of the
> portable package out there as we just passed 1 million downloads of AbiWord
> Portable and version 2.6.3 is bundled in the current PortableApps.com Suite
> Light package.
>
> Kind Regards,
> John
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 10 08:25:45 2008