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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 17:21:29 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Separate Win32 package for 1.3b3 icons & htdocs
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Paul Sutton wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, David D'Antonio wrote:
> > On Monday, December 01, 1997 10:40 AM, Paul Sutton
> > >  -- create custom & typical installs (and remove the
> > >  full/minimum
> > >     install options)
> >
> > I'm curious, why remove the full install option? Perhaps minimum
> > install is what ya get now; no src and no docs, for those with
> > their
> > own content.
> 
> Yeah, whatever. The point is that at the moment all the options do the
> same thing anyway, and they don't have any help type information for end
> users (such as amount of disk space needed, or what components they
> include). I happen to think that typical & custom are the best and only
> required options, but you could add minimum I guess. Typical wouldn't
> include the source code.

They only do the same thing coz documentation and source aren't
included. When they are, compact will have no doc or source, typical
will have doc but no source and full will have doc and source.

Even now, compact excludes the module DLLs.

> 
> > >  -- give some information after the install finishes rather
> > >  than
> > >     just exitting. A readme will do for now. Later it could be
> > >     an
> > >     option to run a batch file which installs Apache as a
> > >     service
> > >     and optionally does a startup on it
> >
> > I believe there is no need for an extra Batch file as IS can
> > surely
> > run Apache -i...
> 
> You would've thought so...

It can.

Cheers,

Ben.

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