[ROOT] Re: Making test example on win98

From: Anton Fokin (anton.fokin@smartquant.com)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 23:01:38 MET


Hi again,

I see no restrictions to make VC installshield distribution for a few
directories (filegroups) of ROOT binaries. We might face it for ROOT source
distribution but that's a different issue. InstallShield is a "normal" c++
program so that you can write a piece of code which will detect 9x 2K or NT
and proceed accordingly. This is a question of a few lines. Why will we
never get it? See the answer in my previous mails :)

Regards,
Anton


> PS. to "installshield" discussion. I checked out InstallShield coming
> with MSVC... It has "change registry" part in the install script, so
> what's the problem with setting paths under install? On the other hand
> what prevents you from writing a few lines in the shield script which
> will manually add two lines in autoexec.bat file? You have to restart
> com then but who cares...

It has been reported that the VStudio version of InstallShield has
limitations on the size of the installation which are too small to
accomodate Root.

Also note (as Valeri recently pointed out) that Win9x and Win2K handle
environment variables in different ways.  Changing autoexec.bat on Win2K
will not accomplish the desired result (in fact it doesn't even exist).



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