Solid reasons :)
Thanks, now I can see some advantages in MSI :)
Stefan Küng wrote:
> Flex wrote:
>
>> looking at the recent discussions about the installation system, is
>> there a reason it has been built with MSI than using some free,
>> ultra-high compression scriptable system as nullsoft installer?
>
> Two reasons:
> * to install the shell extension, you need admin privileges. An msi is
> executed by the SYSTEM account, which has these rights. So even a non
> admin user can install TSVN if it's not blocked by domain group policies.
> * msi's can be deployed via domain group policies to multiple
> workstations in a company. Exe-installers can't (or not without much
> work from the domain admin).
>
> Stefan
>
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