[PD-dev] Windows installer for Pd

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Tue Nov 10 16:03:59 CET 2015



IOhannes m zmoelnig:
> 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).
> 
> 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).

A .zip for Windows is very useful.  But that is a separate question.  Windows
users expect installers.  And making an installer does not prevent also a .zip
file from being made and used.  Pd-extended has both for Windows.

.hc



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