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Installer question...

I am wondering if perhaps foobar2000 could be distrubuted as a compressed format such as .7z as well as an installer?
If that is to much bother maintaining different packages, could the installer use a compression that a program such as 7-Zip or WinRAR could open, without having to go through the process of 'installing' foobar2000.

I think this would be particularly useful for beta cycles. But maybe I am wrong. What are everyone's thoughts?

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Reply #1 –
This was the case for some time, but at some point the installer became the only distribution method. IIRC it was because of the then different utf8api.dll's for Windows NT and 9x builds (so people wouldn't by accident use the 9x dll with NT and vice versa).

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This was the case for some time, but at some point the installer became the only distribution method. IIRC it was because of the then different utf8api.dll's for Windows NT and 9x builds (so people wouldn't by accident use the 9x dll with NT and vice versa).

Ah thanks for enlightening me to the history of foobar, I've only known 0.8 - 0.9.
Seeing as 0.9 is purely unicode now and not supported on 9x/ME does that mean that the problems of the past no longer apply?

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Reply #3 –
you'd still have people trying to install it on Win9x/ME setups so really having an installer is a safer option to do since (as i just tested) it would prompt that it's not going to work/install for those systems.

as for the initial request for the installer to be able to be read in other programs and as things stand with nsis that isn't possible and is very unlikely to be changed due to the high level of code re-organisation which is carried out on the installer as it's built inorder to get the exe stub down to as small as it is.

-daz

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Reply #4 –
That's cleared things up a bit for me. Thanks for your replies

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Reply #5 –
The foobar2000 installer already uses LZMA (the 7-zip compression algorithm).

There is essentially no gain to be made from using .7z now.

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The foobar2000 installer already uses LZMA (the 7-zip compression algorithm).

There is essentially no gain to be made from using .7z now.
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Yes, but that wasn't my question.

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Reply #7 –
Latest 7-Zip can open the installer files now, mwahaha!
 

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Reply #8 –
Ya but the dir layout is kinda raped
hi