Thursday, February 13, 2014

Re: installation issues on Windows 8.1

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Billy Pilgrim <bp.tralfamadore@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!  That works!
> Now, what happened, or why does yours work, and the others do not?
> I can't be the only one to (will) have this issue, can I?

It is likely the installer itself. I use the Nullsoft Installer soley
instead of the offical Vim installer, which uses a combination of the
Nullsoft (mostly cosmetic packaging) and a binary installer underneath
that does most of the heavy lifting. 

Windows security has recently become a little less forgiving (probably
a good thing) and doesn't permit unregistered binaries and scripts as
much access these days. Between making directories, copying files,
creating shortcuts in various profiles, and adjusting the registry,
software installation is not as simple as it used to be. By using an
off the shelf installer, I might be seeing the advantage of a focused
development on these issues. But I'm guessing.


> I'm happy (and productive) now -- thank you very much.

Excellent, that's my goal.


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