[PD-dev] Windows installer for Pd

[Roman Haefeli]

On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 11:59 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2015-11-10 11:29, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > 
> > I tried to do all the work and would welcome some feedback.
> 
> i think it's one of the beautiful sides of Pd that you do *not* need an
> installer (even on windows!) and can run it from any media you like
> (even if it's a read-only CD).

I don't get your point at all. The same applies to Debian GNU/Linux and
it's mostly you who put _a lot_ of work into making things go smooth on
those platforms (i.e. Debian and derivatives). Why are we discussing it
with regards to Windows at all? Don't Windows users deserve the same
amount of convenience?

"Not necessary" is not at all equivalent to "comfortable".  I definitely
don't want to teach my Windows friends SysAdmin-Skills just to make the
install Pd-vanilla in a way that suits them.  

> probably the best thing would be to have a menu-entry (maybe hidden in
> the "preferences"), where people could enable things like
> file-association and startup menus with the click of a button).

It would be possible, sure. But name me one single other software that
does it like that. It seems pretty established practice to let the
package maintainer care about those things. 

Roman 
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