Re: Autoinstaller

[teekay <tony kwok 3web net>]

At 14:30 22-06-01 +0200, you wrote:
> > It think that's a good idea because the installation of a program still
> > a big problem for beginners (dependencies, rights, ...).
>
> "You are in a maze of twisty interdependent shared libraries, all
> different...". 

As much as practical,  avoid "istallation". Link statically,
give the user a choice of the directory in which is the
program files are written, suggest a location outside of the 
"standard" OS file system hierarchy. Keep it as simple as 
possible. 

The concept of "installed" application is what is making 
the system so brittle and hard (if not impossible) for an 
average, non-technical user to administer. Remember, 
the concept of "installing" an application was invented 
by Microsoft. Well designed application should be as 
independent of the operating system as possible.

TK