Re: Re: problems with the XEmTeX installer

George White <[email protected]> Wed, 11 May 2005 18:01:57 -0300 (ADT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.fptex
Message-ID <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1050511175505.11676A-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> Well, to make it clear for every body:
> - this is my first attempt to distribute an MSI file, and this one is
> very large
> - there is a tool to validate the structure of the msi file and xemtex
> has validated the test before I put it for download;
> - I have successfully installed it on a clean XP system running inside
> VMWare.

I installed beta-1 a few weeks ago.  Today I uninstalled beta-1 and then
installed beta-2.  The installs take roughly 1/2 hour (on WinXP with most
of SP2, P4 2.2 ghz, 512M RAM, freshly booted, recently defragged, and no
other programs running)  -- maybe because McAfee scans every file. 



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