[M3devel] FW: .msi files for Windows available

[Jay]

> [was severely truncated darnit trying again and with additional tactics..]
 
 
I put it here assuming it is truncated again:
  http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-NT386-msi.txt
 
 
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.

 
 
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.
 
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    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
    )
 
 
 
 - Jay