HDTP loader

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:43 pm

are you guys or can u guys make a loader that will replace all these for us?

Post by **Trestkon** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:20 am

Yes, there will be an installer, .exe style

walton simons · Post by **walton simons** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:19 pm

Would it be possible to just release the files with some manuel installing instructions for the mac users?

Post by **Jonas** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:43 pm

Yes.

We're doing that for TNM too.

(Oh, look at me responding on behalf of a team I'm not even a part of.)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:51 am

Thats good to hear. It's annoying when mods only release an .exe and I have no chance of running it.

Dazza · Post by **Dazza** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:42 am

Okay so when you install HDTP will it overwright the original textrues, models and such or will it do something else like have another Deus Ex.exe file which launches Deus Ex up using the new stuff?

Post by **Trestkon** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:42 pm

It will probably have it's own exe and shortcut, to keep things clean. I haven't really looked into the code very much to see which way is best, yet.

n0dalus · Post by **n0dalus** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:02 am

Yes I think it would be good to have a non-.exe package for Linux users too

tomato · Post by **tomato** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 3:36 am

n0dalus wrote:Yes I think it would be good to have a non-.exe package for Linux users too

aha! a Linux user! then we'll put the installer in source format so you have to compile the actual installer yourself, and just to throw a wrench into it, we won't supply a makefile! and we'll make it somehow incompatible with gcc so you'll have to buy a proprietary compiler to do it at all! AAHHAHAHAHHAHAH!!

j/k- of course we'll have a non-installer version. it'd probably be an even better idea not to release an installer at all- to teach you windoze users a lesson in how hard it is to install software in UNIX. besides- we're lazy.

p.s. couldn't you use Cedega to run the installer, since you use it to run DX anyways?

Post by **Jonas** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:50 am

tomato wrote:it'd probably be an even better idea not to release an installer at all- to teach you windoze users a lesson in how hard it is to install software in UNIX

How about we send you a virus to teach you how much of a fucking pain in the arse Windows can be when it crashes every 10 minutes? Does that seem like a good idea to you?

Then maybe you should stop bitching

that guy · Post by **that guy** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:56 am

I'm I to understand that there's no installer software which can build installers for all three operating systems?

n0dalus · Post by **n0dalus** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:31 am

well it's interesting you should say that.
If we build it as a standard GNU diff format, which stores the difference between two files (or groups of files), then we can build an installer for each operating system that can install it.
The diff format is comptable with programs on windows, macs and linux.