RE: [PHP-QA] Windows installer
| From: | James Moore | Date: | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:29:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-QA] Windows installer | ||
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> >Looks good only change its nbame from setup.exe to somthing like
> >php403-installer.exe
>
> James,
>
> Thanks for checking it out.
>
> I take your point, but just about every Windows application I have used is
> installed by something called setup.exe, and some widely used applications
> (e.g. WinZip) treat setup.exe as a special case.
>
> That said, I'm happy to go with the tide of opinion if anyone
> else has one!
This is not 100% true, the file you download for winzip is called
winzip80.exe, it is true that this is a zip archive that then has setup.exe,
personally I download everything to one directory on my HD and then run them
out of there, if they were all called setup.exe I would really be screwed as
I would not be able to tell what I was about to install.. This is why I
asked for this (IMHO important) change, so people can tell what a file
contains after they have downloaded it.
James