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

[Zac Spitzer]

which part exactly, the whole installer or just parts thereof?

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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