Re: Pingus Windows Installer

[Erik Søe Sørensen]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> > But it probably won't
> > hurt to add a message box that the user must read the GPL (not that many
> > will do, but that's not our problem) before running the game the first
> > time.
>
>
> Maybe the place for a message like this is on the website, before the user
> downloads the game. This way we don't destroy the experience of the game (or
> worry people unnecessarily, given that the GPL won't even be readable on
> Windows machines), and we can still say they had a reasonable chance to read
> it. The less legal stuff before a user and a game the better.

Surely the (no-)warranty statement should be displayed by the 
installation program and not in the game itself?


> Easily done but it means you can't have more than one installation per
> machine. A better idea would be to get the path of the program .exe,
> and then tag data on to the end of that. I can supply code to do that,
> but can't compile a binary so can't test it.

I suppose a third option is to create a .pif file with the 'start 
directory' set to whatever. (I think it's .pif files that allow you to 
do that).


/Erik
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