[fptex] Re: problems with the XEmTeX installer

[George White]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> Well, to make it clear for every body:
> - this is my first attempt to distribute an MSI file, and this one is
> very large
> - there is a tool to validate the structure of the msi file and xemtex
> has validated the test before I put it for download;
> - I have successfully installed it on a clean XP system running inside
> VMWare.

I installed beta-1 a few weeks ago.  Today I uninstalled beta-1 and then
installed beta-2.  The installs take roughly 1/2 hour (on WinXP with most
of SP2, P4 2.2 ghz, 512M RAM, freshly booted, recently defragged, and no
other programs running)  -- maybe because McAfee scans every file. 



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