[mapguide-internals] Installer: .net framework really required?

[Jackie Ng]

Currently no .net framework means no-go for the installer.

- Jackie


zspitzer wrote:
> 
> if at all possible, we should avoid it IMHO
> 
> if the application doesn't need it, the installer shouldn't..
> 
> is that a deal breaker with the current approach?
> 
> z
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was wondering whether the installer should really have the .net
>> framework
>> as a requirement.
>>
>> I ask this because .net framework is still an *optional* component in
>> Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and I don't really want to burden the
>> user with an additional 20mb download even when they are not going to use
>> any features that require .net (eg. Maestro, ASP.net map viewer).
>>
>> Of course, if Microsoft got their act together, they would've made it a
>> required system component delivered via automatic updates and I wouldn't
>> have be asking this question right now.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> - Jackie
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