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Make Rocbkbox Utility available as .exe not as .zip
Llorean:
I'd also suggest that rbutil may include more files in the future (plugins, or who knows what) and having it always be a .zip means the documentation will never have to change back and forth between "run it" and "extract it, then run it"
tomers:
Please let me know what you think about the following suggestion:
The Rockbox utility will be packed as an NSIS installer.
* It will have redundancy check built-in.
* It will be compressed.
* It might include any other files.
* It will be an executable, which is easier to use once downloaded.
When run, the installer prompts the user with the following:
How do you want to use Rockbox Utility?
* Onetime run
(Rockbox utility will be extracted to the temporary folder, and run from there)
* Installed to the digital player device
(The user will be prompt for the drive letter of the device)
* Installed to host machine
(Rockbox utility will be installed as a 'normal' application, and the user might be prompted to target location, defaulted to Program Files, whether we want to have shortcuts, etc.
On the last screen, after the utility was extracted to the location the user have specified, he will be asked whether he would like to run the utility.
The implementation for what I described should be easy to implement in NSIS.
GodEater:
NSIS is also platform specific though - so we'd have one solution for Windows, and a completely different one for other platforums. A lot of extra work for us for very little gain as far as I can see.
Llorean:
As it works right now, "installation" is the same for all OSes. "Download the archive for your OS, unzip it where you want to put it, and run the included binary."
What, exactly, is the problem with .zip files?
gevaerts:
--- Quote from: tomers on September 10, 2008, 05:08:03 AM ---* It will be an executable, which is easier to use once downloaded.
--- End quote ---
That's only true if you don't have to answer seventeen questions before you can run it
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