Re: stand-alone-package of Abiword one a single floppy

Subject: Re: stand-alone-package of Abiword one a single floppy
From: Alan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 13:20:19 CST

i think it is VERY important that there be some warning.

if niave users have problems with the compressed abiword,
it will be ridiculously difficult to figure out why.
i suppose its okay as you are not putting it on your main page, but keep
in mind the amount of questions that get asked about abiword already and
we have not had a single official stable release yet.

I just cannot assume the binary is safe without proper testing, anything
else is merely anecdotal evidence.

i was hoping to make an installer containing just Abiword.exe that was
packed using UPX so that a user could fit abiword on a floppy disk, but
that they would have to install an uncompressed version to the local
machine. Unfortunately i was not able to get it to work.
The important thing is we know its possible to fit Abiword on a single
floppy disk.

Sincerely
Alan

http://bugzilla.abisource.com
http://www.abisource.com/support/expectations.phtml

"Kenneth J. Davis" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I thought you might be interested that you can now also
> download AbiWord.exe (compressed with UPX) from my tinderbox
> site http://www.darklogic.org/abiword/download/
>
> I'm not going to put a direct link to it on my main page /abiword/, as
> I did this mostly so I can get to the exe without having
> to download & run setup, just to say no to everything but
> the exe, but I thought others might like it as well.
> Also, I kept it AbiWord.exe (without the -upx added) so that
> if someone also downloads the plugins they should work
> correctly with it (as they link to AbiWord.exe and complain
> if it can't be found).

> >for more information about UPX
> >http://upx.sourceforge.net
> >for more information about Nullsoft Scriptable Installer System
> >http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/
> >
> >Mise le meas
> >Alan Horkan
> >
> .. 

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