[sword-devel] Win Sword Module
Dan Bertles
sword-devel@crosswire.org
Sun, 8 Jul 2001 08:07:51 -0400
Chris,
I can't stand installing directly from the server. This takes *far* too
long, and with all the bugs and modifications going on, I like to have the
zip file so I can keep a working copy zipped up on my system if I need it.
Dan
On Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:50 PM, Chris Little
[SMTP:chrislit@chiasma.org] wrote:
> > Point understood and not worth changing right now. Maybe something
> > that
> > could be looked at in the future. Now my question is how to make it
simple
> > for someone that is downloading the Windows zip files to be able to
unzip
> > them and install them. The problem lies in all of the files that are
> > zipped
> > in that one zip file, where does the average user unzip all of those
files
> > to? It will make a mess of their hard drive real quick with downloading
> > and
> > installing all the modules they want. How can we creatively tell them
how
> > to
> > over come this problem so they don't get confused?
>
> We could just tell them to use the Install Manager. :)
>
> I don't understand why anyone would want to use anything else if they had
the option (as all Windows users now should).
>
> Otherwise, they would need to use a temporary directory.
>
> --Chris
>
>