Re: Pingus Windows Installer

[Giga1220]

Hi folks,

As I've been away on holidays over the last few weeks, I haven't read my 
mails this far. Consequently it's no wonder you got no feedback about 
the Windows Installer ;)
It's some nice work, thanks to the contributor!

Today, I've tested it on nearly all flavours of Windows, e.g. on Win95 
C, Win98 First Edition and Windows XP Service Pack 1 and I have tried to 
run it with pingus-0.6.0rc1.1-binary-win32.zip (I couldn't find a more 
recent build.) It runs stable on all platforms, but I have found a few 
issues I wanted to discuss here:
1. Pingus won't start after the installation on WinXP, one has to start 
it manually from its directory after the installation. (It starts after 
the installation, but it only shows the console and a black screen and 
then disappears again - that gives a pretty bad first impression...)
The start directory seems to be wrongly chosen - same thing for the icon 
on the desktop. Pingus needs to be run in or from its own directory!!!
2. The installer doesn't create any icons in the start menu. - Pretty 
bad: that's what an installer is made for, isn't it?
3. There is no icon on my desktop, but only some standard windows crap.

Some other suggestions:
- Modern Installers always put the name of the Program at the end of the 
folder the user has selected via the folder tree. It would make sense to 
 automatically add a "\Pingus\" at the end here, too.
- You don't get to read the GPL... This is a problem as the "ABSOLUTELY 
NO WARRANTY" trash also concerns the installer. I would add that for 
your own safety.
- An uninstall feature would make it perfect. I beg you to integrate it. 
There are so many Windows idiots out there, who don't know anything  at 
all. They will have to erase the directory if they want to install a new 
version. And a lot of them aren't mentally able to do that.

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As we have an installer now - why are there still no official windows 
builds? My 0.6.0 RC 1.1 runs perfectly on 2/3 of my PCs (it crashes at 
the start on my Win95 machine, though and takes the whole PC down). I 
think, it should be released as a official build - or the 0.6.1 should 
be at least released with a link on the webpage. The only thing that is 
missing is the music and translations  (clanMikMod and getext), but that 
doesn't matter much to me.

see you online
Christian