installing libs on Windows

Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de
Mon Aug 6 10:42:17 BST 2007


Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> Von: Andreas Pakulat
>   
>> On 05.08.07 23:52:39, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 05 August 2007 21:09, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 05.08.07 20:46:57, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sunday 05 August 2007 20:16, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I'm including the macro proposed by PutHuhn here again and asking
>>>>>>             
>> if
>>     
>>>>>> there are objections against adding this macro and converting
>>>>>> trunk/KDE+koffice to use this macro for its installed shared
>>>>>>             
>> libraries?
>>     
>>>>> Yes, objections.
>>>>> 1) Christian stated he sees no real need to change anything
>>>>>           
>>>> Well, so far he's alone. I do see the need and seemingly Ralf also
>>>>         
>> see's
>>     
>>>> the need to change something. Along with at least 2 more win32 devs.
>>>>         
>>> I consider Christians opinion as important, if he says there is no real
>>>       
>> need 
>>     
>>> to, it means at least that it can't be that bad as it is now.
>>>       
>> Sure its not that bad, we currently are developers that know how to set a
>> PATH. For an end user that is unacceptable and there are only 3 ways
>> to make it work for him:
>>
>> a) make the installer change the PATH in the users environment settings,
>> which breaks installing the .zip files directly into some dir or moving
>> the programs later on
>>     
> The packager needs to adjust the path. 
You mean that the packager should move the dlls from lib into bin ?

Ralf






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