[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
If an app/dll that is called by the installer fails to run, the install *will* fail. I have seen this happen. Amongst the many years of software experience I have, 5 years of it is in writing installers for Windows systems. I assure you that installs can and do fail, under the right (wrong?) circumstances.

Pah! In the old days, installing things didn't involve wonky executables just for installing, or DLLs. Installations couldn't "fail", because you simply copied everything into the directory of your choice.

What, may I ask, was wrong with this system? It was foolproof and flawless, yet they had to can install some crazy new-fangled "installer", when something as simple as untar/unzip/copy would have worked fine!