Windows Installer on OSNews

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-Windows-Installer>

GNUstep gets some publicity, this is great.

Going to GNUsteps web site <http://www.gnustep
.org/experience/ 
Windows.html>, I think this could be phrased better.

Cite:

"The current installer is minimally usable and has only
been tested  
in a few configurations (NT, XP). It does not work on 64-bit
systems."

-> "The current installer is usable and has been
tested on Windows NT  
and XP (32 bit)."

(With XP 32-bit you catch about 80% of the potential market
already,  
most other packages don't even care about the other 20%.)

Cite:

"It most likely will not work if you don't have
Administrator access.  
It also only sets things up correctly for the current user,
not for  
any other users on the system."

-> "Administrator access is needed and things will
be set up for the  
current user."

(This is pretty common on Windows)

Cite:
"User Installer
If you just want to run GNUstep applications GNUstep-User -
Not  
available yet."

Well, if there's no User Installer yet, why do you
distinguish it  
from the Developer Installer at all? Just talk about _the_
Installer.  
The working Installer, of course.

The reason I'm writing this is, this page perfectly
demonstrates what  
I consider as one of the reasons why GNUstep gets so few
public  
notification. Did you notice all the "not work",
"minimally usable"  
and "not available"? About any other computer
project in the world  
praises what works and how great and shiny everything is,
but GNUstep  
is in a hurry to tell about what doesn't work, where you
have to wait  
and where to expect failures. This is pointless.

People want to listen to great, working stuff. If the
Installer works  
at all, this is an advantage over many other systems
already. So,  
treat it like that.

Bugs are nasty, but many people won't even notice them. So
why  
talking about and even putting emphasis on them? After all,
bugs (if  
they appear at all) are a perfect chance to demonstrate
GNUstep's  
well working and very responsive tracking system.

In case you get a User Installer ready, heck, that'd be
great news.  
Nobody expected this, but GNUsteppers surprised with
useability again!

Have fun,
Markus

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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
http://www.jump-ing.de/

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