Re: Gtkmm Windows Runtime Installer - Silent Option

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:43 -1000, John Hobbs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking to deploy the Windows runtime installer in silent mode,
> but it doesn't set the PATH when you do that.

Why do you need this? What is the purpose of the "silent" install? You
mentioned it on the wiki page but didn't say why anybody would want to
use it.

If you want to call the gtkmm installer from an application installer, I
think that's not an intended use of the gtkmm installer. The wiki page
recommends that you just ship the files because it's a simple install.

And why do we need to set PATH? And why would we not want to set it?

> I am running:
> 
> gtkmm-win32-runtime-2.14.1-2.exe /S /D=C:\Program Files\gtkmm
> 
> Is there a flag I can use to make it set the env. variables?
>
> Here is a ref. for adding a flag maybe:
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
> 
> Also, when you run it silent it seems to install as "current user
> only", an option would be nice.
> 
> Lastly, if you install silent, when you uninstall it won't clean up
> the start menu at all.
> 
> I found no problems when running a silent uninstall, aside from the
> conditional issue above, which occurs in a non-silent uninstall as
> well.
> 
> I went ahead and stuck those notes on the wiki, is that the right
> place to deal with this? Since it's a build I don't really see it as a
> "bug" persay.

> 
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