New Windows installer for Avogadro

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I created a new Windows installer for Avogadro. It provides the following new features compared to
the existing one:

  • The file extension “.cml” is registered to be opened with Avogadro when
    double-clicking on cml-files (can be deselected in the installer menu)
  • Desktop icon is provided (can be deselected in the installer menu)
  • Avogadro is installed for all users, when the the user is admin (fixes
    bug 1972227)
  • Installer is translatable
  • English and German translation is delivered, (the installer detects the
    used language by checking the default language of Windows)
  • Installer can also be used under Windows Vista
  • Avogardo is correctly uninstalled
  • Avogadro can directly be started after the installation (checkbox in
    the last installer window)
  • The start menu link for the release notes now correctly links to the
    actual release

Test it out, I hope you like it.
Maintaining the installer is simple: For a new release just open the file “setup.nsi” and change
there the 2 values for the version number from 0.8.0 to the new number (or create a script that does
this) - that’s all.

The installer is based on the one I wrote for the bibliography editor program JabRef, so it works
well on all Windows OSes. When you have questions or improvement proposals, please mail me.

The installer source code can be downloaded from
http://fkurth.de/uwest/Avogadro/AvogadroInstaller.rar
the ready compiled installer from
http://fkurth.de/uwest/Avogadro/AvogadroSetup.exe

In case you want to use it, or parts of its code, I hereby grant permission to use the installer for
the Avogadro project under the license terms of the Avogadro project. I will also maintain the
installer in case there are bug reports.

regards Uwe

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On May 27, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

I created a new Windows installer for Avogadro. It provides the
following new features compared to
the existing one:
Test it out, I hope you like it.

This is great, thanks! We were thinking of a 0.8.1 bug-fix release
sometime soon, so we will definitely use the new installer instead.

Thanks very much,
-Geoff

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Geoffrey Hutchison schrieb:

This is great, thanks! We were thinking of a 0.8.1 bug-fix release
sometime soon, so we will definitely use the new installer instead.

Good to hear that you like it.

best regards Uwe

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Hi,

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Uwe Stöhr uwestoehr@web.de wrote:

I created a new Windows installer for Avogadro. It provides the following new features compared to
the existing one:

  • The file extension “.cml” is registered to be opened with Avogadro when
    double-clicking on cml-files (can be deselected in the installer menu)
  • Desktop icon is provided (can be deselected in the installer menu)
  • Avogadro is installed for all users, when the the user is admin (fixes
    bug 1972227)
  • Installer is translatable
  • English and German translation is delivered, (the installer detects the
    used language by checking the default language of Windows)
  • Installer can also be used under Windows Vista
  • Avogardo is correctly uninstalled
  • Avogadro can directly be started after the installation (checkbox in
    the last installer window)
  • The start menu link for the release notes now correctly links to the
    actual release

Test it out, I hope you like it.

Yes, it looks much better than what we had.

Thanks,
Tim