User Installer Preferences
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:19 pm
I am going to start making available binaries for EMSLoad, an alternative to MTXLoader and FreeEMS-Loader, and I would like some feedback from the community on what I should do with the installer.
I have two options, I can either have two installers, released side by side which install to different folders with different start menu folder entries, or have one installer which has options to install both to the same folder with shortcuts a single folder in the start menu.
I'm leaning towards the latter, just having one core installer than will install one or both applications depending on the users needs. EMSTune's installer is 12 megs, EMSLoad's installer is 6 megs, together they would be under 13 megs, so it would be a savings of disk space and bandwidth on both the server, and the users side to combine them.
What do you all think?
I have two options, I can either have two installers, released side by side which install to different folders with different start menu folder entries, or have one installer which has options to install both to the same folder with shortcuts a single folder in the start menu.
I'm leaning towards the latter, just having one core installer than will install one or both applications depending on the users needs. EMSTune's installer is 12 megs, EMSLoad's installer is 6 megs, together they would be under 13 megs, so it would be a savings of disk space and bandwidth on both the server, and the users side to combine them.
What do you all think?