[Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

[Bruce Mutton]

It is outside of my area of expertise, however:

*	No 1 seems dangerous, at the whim of future MS updates and there are bound to be people with non-standard setups, or very old Windows versions, any of which might break something that tries to be too clever.
*	No 2 is OK by me.

I don’t think I would use a ‘non-installed’ version.  The installer is compact, quick, easy and has proved versatile and reliable over at least 10 years.  I rely on file associations heavily, to tweak my system to make Therion workflow ‘comfortable’.

Bruce

 

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Subject: Re: [Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

 

About the installer problems...

Since I did the installer changes, here is that comes to mind:
1) I could try to make it more intelligent and to detect if there is an existing install location (all users or current user) and to install in the same one without the "All/Current user" prompt. This will probably not prevent all possible problems though.

2) Another solution would be to revert those changes and keep only the "All users" option, which requires admin privileges. This is how the older installers worked and always installed in Program Files.

In addition to that, there could be a portable edition of Therion, which is distributed as a ZIP file and the user would only need to extract it in a folder. There would be no association to the TH, TH2 and THCONFIG file extensions of course. Currently the code reads the install location from the Win registry, but it could be made to search for files in the current folder.

Does anyone have an opinion on what would be most useful?

Would you use the portable option, or the "Current user" installer?

Vladimir

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