[GRASS-dev] wingrass standalone default options, Microsoft Runtime Libraries

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Hi all,

it seems to me that to enable installing Important Microsoft Runtime
Libraries is crucial when installing GRASS using standalone installer
on newer versions of Windows.

I wonder if it would make sense to enable it by default (now it's
uncheck). What do you think? Thanks, Martin

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Martin Landa wrote

Hi all,

it seems to me that to enable installing Important Microsoft Runtime
Libraries is crucial when installing GRASS using standalone installer
on newer versions of Windows.

I wonder if it would make sense to enable it by default (now it's
uncheck). What do you think? Thanks, Martin

maybe a better way would be to check if the needed runtime libraries are
already installed?

unfortunately I've never found an easy and feasible way for checking this.

so a +0 for a default install of a Microsoft Runtime Libraries.

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik@web.de> wrote:

Martin Landa wrote
> Hi all,
>
> it seems to me that to enable installing Important Microsoft Runtime
> Libraries is crucial when installing GRASS using standalone installer
> on newer versions of Windows.
>
> I wonder if it would make sense to enable it by default (now it's
> uncheck). What do you think? Thanks, Martin

maybe a better way would be to check if the needed runtime libraries are
already installed?

unfortunately I've never found an easy and feasible way for checking this.

so a +0 for a default install of a Microsoft Runtime Libraries.

I don't understand it much but it seems to me that it always worked only
when they were actually in the GRASS directory. (Although in theory it
should be enough to have them on PATH.)

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 4:58 AM, Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

it seems to me that to enable installing Important Microsoft Runtime
Libraries is crucial when installing GRASS using standalone installer
on newer versions of Windows.

I wonder if it would make sense to enable it by default (now it's
uncheck). What do you think? Thanks, Martin

+1

GNU GPL requires to take positive action (no reference for it now) but
according to the usual practice, I think it would be enough if the check
box would be checked by default and there would be something like don't
proceed if you don't want it (the positive action is pressing Next button).

(If it would be privacy issue or something like that, I would be more
conservative, but this is just fixing operating system defected by design.)

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Hi,

2015-06-07 16:42 GMT+02:00 Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus@gmail.com>:

I wonder if it would make sense to enable it by default (now it's
uncheck). What do you think? Thanks, Martin

+1

done in r65463. Martin

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2015-06-14 12:52 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com>:

done in r65463. Martin

btw, osgeo4w installer is doing the same. Ma

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