From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:18:21 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application? Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:18:24 -0500 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < Message-ID: <15h2j818sfkj16h8ngvsedmvh27ngsk15o@invalid.netcom.com> References: <20130228010057.13659976@hactar.xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> <1jakth6zgpm7u.1jynuosu6x48.dlg@40tude.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.249.21.70 X-Trace: sv3-8fW/4xZUfmiZF5gt1fxYin5oT+Iz3tfDqvCFzfy+nQE4MbTHthBbRvidCZRLfu7vH2PTuJWSlyhyETk!UsLwvx8zjSdmvYSqKA/fOKA46NMj3SXvBRdibwVo7wWMvwCCflodc2saUr6AoVqRhAfkz4+UwdeL!ZqLI+8do0f8AoQW/e3a5Edl37nl1bRRn7mswYr5m X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2316 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:180406 Date: 2013-03-01T19:18:24-05:00 List-Id: On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 09:41:37 +0100, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: > > I didn't say msi is good. In fact there exist many Windows installers from > third parity vendors, which indicates that msi is not good. Yet, it is the > standard way under Windows. > I suspect many of those 3rd party installers predate the creation of MSI. M$ would rather everything be done as MSI since they've tied them into the security system (there is no option for "run as..." on WinXP, meaning one /must/ log-in as an administrator to run them... Whereas installers that package as EXE can be started from any account using the "run as..." to gain admin). -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/