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[Jody Klymak]

Hi Fabrice,

TeX is a relatively complicated program.  I'm pretty sure anyone who uses it is
capable of seperately downloading their choice out of five or six zip files and
putting them in the same directory as the "base" download.  A good README which
tells absolute newbies what is essential and what is simply goodies should
suffice to get people a minimal download that runs.  Perhaps a warning in the IS
script if they have not downloaded a certain minimum of packages and directing
them to the README would suffice to keep questions to a minimum.  

Cheers,  Jody



Fabrice POPINEAU wrote:
> 
> "Juan I. Montijano" <monti@posta.unizar.es> writes:
> 
> > Then, we could download just what we need (with the adequate previous
> > information, of course).
> > I have seen this in the installation of some software, but I do not know how
> > difficult can be to prepare in this form.
> 
> Sure. For example, that's what MS does with Internet Explorer. And it
> is nice. But not obvious to implement. IS allows only very simple
> operations. Doing this would almost require to build an IS script per
> package, and run those scripts from the main one. Not what I call a
> clean solution : imagine what your screen would look like if the
> package were split in 25 parts !
> 
> I will investigate the support for downloading components from the web
> in MS tools. But I'm afraid that will work only with recent tools
> (IE4).
> 
> --
> Fabrice

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