[Libreoffice] Two-stage install on Windows

[Marc-André Laverdière]

Nice suggestion! Have you tried a proof of concept?

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On 06/30/2011 03:34 PM, Andras Timar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was working on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32335
> (Under Traditional Chinese environment, the installation process
> showed bizarre characters) which is still unresolved but at least I
> learned that the problem was not in LibreOffice source but in the
> official build environment. Anyway, I started to think about why we
> use two-stage install on Windows. Why don't we simply extract the MSI
> installer (e.g. with NSIS silent install) to a temp folder and start
> setup.exe without a -lang switch. setup.exe can find out the correct
> language itself. We could get rid of NSIS limitations (non-Unicode),
> and we would not put installer files to the average user's desktop.
> Systems administrators can still extract the MSI installer with the
> /EXTRACTONLY=ON switch of NSIS.
>
> Do you have arguments for the current two-stage install method?
>
> Andras
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