Hi, installer should place pd and library files into a selecteable folder. Main libraries should come with installer (zexy, iemlib, maxlib....) maybe selecteable via checkbox. It should autogenerate a start-script / ini-file(?). If changes are made in the properties (media/audiosettings) menu, they should be saved into this start-script. The windows installer should link *.pd-files with pd/resp.the startscript, and maybe alternatively with an "edit-function" (notepad). So that one can open pd-files also with the text-editor. It should link pd-files with the pd-icon. Paths should be added and be editable via the pd-program (again: save directly to start-script). Clicking on a pd-file should open pd or open the patch in the already running pd. hmm, I think some other wishes will occur, but thats it for the beginning. Marius.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" hans@eds.org To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:34 PM Subject: [PD] tell me about your Windows install
So since I have begun the process of building a Windows installer for Pd, I am looking for feedback about what the installer should and shouldn't do, and what should happen with the Pd install. Many people have build their own Windows distros and everyone has things they like and don't like about them. Please tell me so I can incorporate as much as possible into the installers.
My goal is to make installers that install as much of the Pd code as possible. There is sooo much good stuff out there that people never use because they don't find it, or its hard to install.
.hc
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