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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ad6cab12fa0c181 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT version for Ada training? Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:21:01 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <77d239b1-3ba6-458c-9f97-d64b16d46675@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <97bdd011-aeab-4b75-ba6e-2cae0f9fe1aa@m7g2000vbq.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1297210864 11330 69.95.181.76 (9 Feb 2011 00:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 00:21:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17068 Date: 2011-02-08T18:21:01-06:00 List-Id: "Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" wrote in message news:op.vqkj61qcule2fv@garhos... Le Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:28:17 +0100, Randy Brukardt a �crit: >> Windows tries hard to discourage installation of any program without >> administrator permissions, especially on Windows XP and more recent. Any >> program that needs to modify the registry is going to have problems - >There are plenty of useful things which can already be done with >HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Writing to this one, does not requires administrative >rights. Right, but that doesn't include registering programs, help files, and extensions. It's pretty hard to write a good Windows program without doing those things. >> and >> "good" Windows programs will write various things into the registry. >The quotes was welcome, as as-the time goes, more people enjoy >configuration in files instead of the registry: drop-and-run, the same it >is possible with MacOS. The application reside in its own directory, and >mostly write only there, optionally in Application Data, except the >documents it generates. Janus/Ada used to be that way, but people can't figure it out. These days, they expect do-everything installers. I'd surely prefer to spend my time on other things, but you can't claim customers are always wrong and expect to have any customers... >May be this would be better to at least display a message to tell the user >why this need admin account when there is really no other way. This is detailed in the installation documentation. I doubt anyone ever reads that (you could be the first :-), but we still send it... Randy.