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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:25:12 +0200, Thomas Singer <cvsnt at smartcvs.com> wrote: >Hi Bo, > >Your version could be installed without a problem. Thanks. > >Just curious, why aren't all versions maintained and available at cvsnt.org? Originally (way back) Tony Hoyle used InstallShield for the setups. Then he switched to InnoSetup, the open source installation system for Windows, which is also used by WinCvs (and incidentally also by my companies). This worked fine for several years, but then at about version 2.0.58, when CVSNT development transferred to March Hare they changed to using Windows Installer instead. This was for some corporate conformance issues apparently. Since we were several users who did not want to introduce Windows Installer into this product I volunteered to maintain the original Innosetup installer on a separate site. But it is not easy to keep up with changes made by Tony, so slowly the installer is diverging from the MSI one he makes. So at a point in time Oliver Giesen tried a stab at the MSI sources to see what was changing and made his own version with Innosetup that more closely mimics the CVSNT one as regards shortcut names etc. So now we are two at least doing this. In any case what I do is that I take the officially released binary files and then I build them into the installer, the only file I create myself is the cvs.chm helpfile since it is not part of the binaries download. But this is always rebuilt from the source I get from the CVSNT CVS repository, so it is the official version nevertheless. /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)