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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Installer 2.5 glitches
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 18:53:21 EST
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>>The installers nice, but why bother?

>I can think of two reasons:

>1. You don't always know what resources have been added to your system
>file.  Remember the days before INIT 31, when applications like JClock
>would stick INIT resources into the system file for you?

You know, this sounds like a perfect reason NOT to use installer. Anything
that got stuck in there that I've either forgotten about or didn't know
about I'm not sure I want to keep around....
>
>2. The Installer is good for less experienced users, who could not be
>expected to copy all the fonts, DAs, etc. by themselves.

Except that using the installer is at least as complicated as using the
Font/DA mover, and in many (most?) cases you end up using the font/DA mover
afterwards, anyway. I don't see any real win.


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Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM	Delphi: CHUQ