 | "Yikes! massive VB Installer package" I downloaded this, but am not prepared to deal with unleashing the installer routine.
Red flags for me, re its secretive and locked-down installer exe.
It has all kinds of VB runtimes hidden in the setupe package. It is a huge PITA when these installers do forcible overwrites and changes onto the system directory. I am at a motel at the moment without my removable drive backup to recover from such problems.
It also irritates me greatly the old habit of software installers forcing upon user their own sloppy notions of what belongs in our system directory, scripting out automatic overwrites -- totally without our consent.
VB runtimes should be offered as an independent download, not locked hidden into an installer like this. And this particular installer, it is Indigo Rose, and I don't have the means, unlike some others, to decompile/decompress it, in order to make my own decisions about what is placed in my system directory.
Finally, another forbidding sign in what the installer wants to do. A bunch of OCX's. That means a tonnage of ugley, entangle HKCR registry entries.
UGHHHHH.
Cannot someone produce a blackjack program in something clean, say Delphi, or some C, and not all this VB + Active-X stuff?
And cannot someone distribute a blackjack program as a safe & respectful zip file?
As opposed to in a secretive installer package poised to forcibly reak mass changes on the core of one's system files and registry...
:(
by: Timid
| 1 | 2005-11-24 |
