Re: windows installer and COPYING

[jah <jah () zadkiel plus com>]

Rob Nicholls wrote:
> > I've noticed for the first time (having used it several times without
> > noticing) that the windows installer shows the License (COPYING) in a
> > field which is 5 chars too small for it
> >     
>
> I'm sure most users are too busy clicking I Agree to bother reading it ;)
>   
Aye to that!  Could just have a one liner saying "For License read 
http://... , but we know you won't."
> I suspect (but haven't checked) it's controlled by the font size in
> Windows (so a larger font would mean even more word wrapping going on),
> but you're right that a default copy of XP/Vista/2003 is displayed as seen
> in your screenshot (and isn't very pretty).
>
>   
> > I've had a look at nsis and can't think of any
> > other way to sort this without creating a different executable from
> > which the installer form derives.
> >
> > Maybe someone has got a better solution...
> >     
>
> Once the COPYING file in SVN has been modified (which only one of the
> developers can commit), the updated version should get included in all the
> dist files (*nix and Windows, which is why COPYING doesn't have any
> Windows style linebreaks) whenever Fyodor puts out a new build. The
> installer's license page simply displays the contents of the COPYING file
> that eventually gets installed in the supplied installation path, so the
> nsi file shouldn't require any modification.
>
>   !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE "..\..\COPYING"
>   
Aye to that too, but what I had in mind was an nsis friendly version of 
COPYING with no breaks except for paragraphs and bullet lists and which 
would hopefully wrap inside the field at all resolution/font-size 
combinations.  This of course would mean two versions of COPYING to 
maintain, but the alternative would be to always have some combination 
that breaks the formatting.  Unless, that is, there's another 
alternative (like a one liner)...

jah

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