[M3devel] .msi files for Windows available

[Jay]

http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives
 
now contains .msi files for Windows:
 
http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-min-NT386-d5.8.1.msi
http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-std-NT386-d5.8.1.msi
 

These are some of the first .msi files I have ever made.
I used WiX. scripts/python/make-dist.py makes them.
 

Some of the highlights/lowlights:
 They always install all of what they have. There is not (yet)
   support for the package sets.
 They always modify %PATH%. It should be an option.
   They append to %PATH%. My intent was to prepend. (It appears obvious
   how, but it didn't work.)
 They have an uninstaller, listed in add/remove programs.
   Not listed in the start menu. That seems to be go either way in practise.
   The uninstaller does remove c:\cm3\bin from %path%, besides deleting
   all the files -- that didn't take any extra work.
 They don't put anything in the start menu.
   What would it be? Oh, I need to try cm3ide, which probably isn't here.
 The config file still just runs cl.exe/link.exe from %path%.
   I think the way to address this is in the config file, not setup.
 The default install location is c:\cm3 but user can change it.
 The presentation of the licenses is quite ugly. And perhaps unnecessary?
   Not seemingly not easy to remove, without copy/pasting some code/data with yet another license.
 There are accidentally two .pdbs (symbols) in the .msis.
  (More geerally the symbols are:
   http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-min-NT386-d5.8.1-symbols.zip
   http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-std-NT386-d5.8.1-symbols.zip
  and the same content without installation is at 
   http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-min-NT386-d5.8.1.zip
   http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-std-NT386-d5.8.1.zip
  )
 

http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives
 is a bit messy due to the volume of files,
 it should probably be split up.
 
 
Someone please try them out and report back.
I did test them. They install/uninstall, modify $path, and cm3 runs.
 

 - Jay