[bt-devel] Windows installer tool choice (was: Re: Windows build system)

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Quoting Martin Gruner <mg.pub at gmx.net>:

>> I suggest you to consider if BibleTime should support win9x and choose
>> the appropriate branch of NSIS.
>
>> 1) official branch - supports win9x, but there are some issues with
>> localizations (e.g. the text file with localization must use codepage
>> for that localization)
>> 2) unicode branch - supports only win2k and above, you can use even
>> non-ansi localizations
>
> These versions of Windows are not supported since a long time, so we  
>  should not need to support them either.
>

Why not, if BibleTime just works on them? It would disappointing if  
someone happens to run W98 and wants to use BibleTime in it, and the  
only reason why he can't do it is because our installer doesn't  
support it.

On the other hand, we can mention that we support Win9x but an  
installer or a binary package is available only if someone requests  
for it. Then it's easy to create a simple .zip file for the binary and  
the user can set up the rest manually.

--Eeli Kaikkonen