[18] in installers
Re: Let's preserve the name SETUP.EXE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul B. Hill)
Tue Mar 4 19:31:39 1997
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 19:30:49 -0500
To: Jim Repa <REPA@mitvma.mit.edu>, jsaylor@MIT.EDU
From: "Paul B. Hill" <pbh@MIT.EDU>
Cc: INSTALLERS@MIT.EDU
At 06:27 PM 3/4/97 EST, Jim Repa wrote:
>Jerry,
>
>In light of John Saylor's comments (e.g., "Installers are always named
>SETUP.EXE..."), I think we should avoid diverging from standard Windows
>practice. Let's continue to call the Ksign installer SETUP.EXE.
>
John's point is valid when the product comes on its own media or comes in a
zip file which needs to be expanded before running the installer. However
this is not the common practice when the installer, as an executable, is
downloaded to a machine.
As an example the installer for Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01 is
something like msine_301.exe.
This becomes especially important when a user may be browsing and
downloading several installers in one session and saving them all to their
default "save to disk" directory.
Paul
