Re: Troubles with Windows versions

[Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl>]

Hi Denis,

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze wanadoo fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I apologize to insist, but I'd like to know if Evince' developers have
> ideas about the troubles I reproduce below. If I remember well, they
> don't plan to provide Windows installer for odd numbers of Evince'
> versions but could it be possible, by way of exception, to let last
> 2.31.5 version to be tested on Windows by the way of a .exe installer?
>
> Thanks in anticipation.

All the problems you refer to are caused by the msi installer, so
there is no need to skip ahead to version 2.31.5. When properly
packaged, the 2.30.3 version could work fine.

Unfortunately, packaging it properly into an msi installer is more
difficult then I thought. I really appreciate that you report the
problems you note with the 2.30.3 version and I will try to fix those
when time permits.
There are just to many Windows versions that all work slightly
different. To make it work for both administrators and non
administrators there seems to be no easy solution.

As for an .exe installer, I think it would take me more time to get
that working than to fix the msi installer. But if you think you can
make it work yourself, I do not object at all to you making an exe
installer.

Cheers,

Hib Eris