[M3devel] FW: .msi files for Windows available

[jay.krell at cornell.edu]

Truncated again I think, can't fix right now.

  - Jay (phone)

On Jun 28, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu> wrote:

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>> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: .msi files for Windows available
>> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:08:44 +0000
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>> http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives
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>> now contains .msi files for Windows:
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>> 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
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>> These are some of the first .msi files I have ever made.
>> I used WiX. scripts/python/make-dist.py makes them.
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>> 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