Re: RFC: Single Windows Installer

From: Tomas Frydrych <tf_at_o-hand.com>
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 09:06:02 CEST

John T. Haller wrote:
> The issue is if a user wants to add additional plugins that aren't
> included. Currently, they can use the AbiWord plugin installer and add
> what they'd like (without it being UPX compressed of course). If the
> AbiWord plugins were only available as part of the AbiWord installer,
> then an AbiWord Portable end user wouldn't be able to add additional
> plugins (without installing AbiWord and then the plugins they want
> locally and then manually copying files from it to AbiWord Portable
> which they can only do when logged into a PC as an admin... which they
> usually aren't). And an AbiWord end user would have to re-download the
> full AbiWord installer to add additional plugins at a later time
> (assuming they delete the installer after installing as most users do).

Probably simplest if you create your own plugin installer alongside the
customized application installer; should not be that hard, since you are
repackaging AbiWord anyway.

Tomas
Received on Tue Jun 10 09:09:17 2008

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