Cantabile Development Blog

New Installer

Today I rewrote Cantabile's installer, switching from the old setup program that I wrote myself to the NullSoft Installer (NSIS):

The main advantage of the new installer is to do with creating file assocations for Cantabile's .session files and other supported file types. In Cantabile 1.2 these were created by Cantabile on start-up and due to User Access Control, usually failed on Vista.

These associations are now created by the installer and also means I can better support side-by-side installations of the various versions (eg: the Lite and Full versions).

Note in the above screen shot, the required installation size of 7.3MB is not indicative of the final release. This screen shot was taken from a debug build which includes about 20MB worth of debug files. Final version shouldn't be that much bigger than v1.2)

Posted on April 17, 2008

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