Making installation smoother

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 2/18/09 9:36 PM, "Thorsten Hohage" <thohage at genericobjects.de> wrote:

>>> In the future when I upgrade, I pull down the appropriate
>>> downloads.
>>> 
>>> - Valentina for REALbasic for Mac OS X (Universal Binary)
>>> - Valentina Libraries for Windows
>>> 
>>> This saves a bunch of looking around for libraries buried in
>>> folders under Windows after doing an install to just get the
>>> libraries.
>> 
>> * So we need add 3 more archives, right?
>> 
>> * each such archive contains just compressed folder vcomponents
>>    right
>> 
>> Well this is quite easy to produce and add into automated scripts
>> :-)
> 
> 
> 
> But was declined the last time someone requested this

Not exactly Thorsten.

There was in the past few questions, if we can integrate WIN libs say right
into V4REV_MAC archive.

THIS IS not easy. Because WIN dlls are on one build WIN computer, MAC
archives on another computer - MAC.

Also this will increase a lots size of archives.

Brendan have suggest OTHER more simple way -- just prepare 3 archives of
vcomponents folders.

This not make V4REV MAC installation ready to compile on WIN.
For this step developer need copy not only vcomponents but V4REV plugin
files also...

For RB this is more easy, because .rbx have all 3 platforms in single file..


> - I would be  
> really happy to have it. Just right yesterday I was forced to start
> Parallels, Windows XP, download it, install it, copy the folder, shut
> down Windows ... all for only updating 2 PCs.
> 
> 
> But on the other side I really must warn anybody to deploy an untested
> RB app from Mac to Windows without testing it carefully! So you should
> already have the folder on your test machine (or as me yesterday at
> home *lol*)

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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