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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:18:19 +1100
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 04:27:17PM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote:
>   
>> Those are further reasons I think it's more elegant to add the license 
>> info to the setup.ini file.  But is the setup.ini creation currently 
>> automated?  If so there will be some occasions where the license info 
>> can't be automatically updated (and will require some human thought  to 
>> fill in details).
>>
>> What do you think?
>>     
>
> I'm not interested in trying to figure out an automated way to add
> a new field to setup.ini 

I don't know enough about setup.ini to understand why that's hard (my 
script can already do it), but I accept it.

> and I'm not interested in modifying setup.exe
> to deal with the new field.
>
>   

Although it sounds easy to me (since the info's not for setup and so 
setup should ignore the extra info), I don't know how setup's written, 
and you're the boss, so what you say, goes!

> One of the above is a showstopper so you're going to have to do what
> others have suggested and put the information in the packages.
>
> cgf
>
>   

Okay, that's blunt but quite clear.  So we'll go ahead with the other 
approach.

luke

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