Re: TortoiseSVN Installer

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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