Install msiexec in the bin dir while make install.

Vincent Béron vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca
Fri Jul 23 13:14:33 CDT 2004


Le ven 23/07/2004 à 13:54, Alexandre Julliard a écrit :
> Vincent Béron <vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca> writes:
> 
> > Alexandre, what are the guidelines for installing winelib applications
> > in /foo/bin/?
> 
> It should be restricted to apps that users will frequently run from
> the command-line on Windows so that they expect the same behavior on
> Wine, or else to apps prefixed with 'wine' as there isn't a risk of
> conflict in that case. I'm not sure msiexec qualifies; is it really
> something that end users are expected to use on Windows?

Does double-clicking on a .msi package (and thus run msiexec) applies?

I don't think many users actually go to a command prompt and exec
msiexec that way. The native version gives its error messages via
MessageBox, so it looks like its a gui app more than a cli app.

Vincent





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