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

[Jackie Ng]

Currently it is the whole installer.

- Jackie


zspitzer wrote:
> 
> 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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