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Austin · *Last edited by Austin; 23-03-2004 at 12:49..*

I have the first version of the Promised POD2.6 installer ready for some review.

I started a new thread since the original one has almost 300 posts and 10K views! I knew an upgraded POD would be popular! Perhaps we need a forum dedicated to it?

You can DL the installer here:
http://austinbots.com/POD26.exe

This is a first version (fully functional) that people can run, test it and give me feedback on, so we can work out exactly what it should do for a first time install and an upgrade / remove install.

Here are the features.
For a first time install it
1) Finds the HL or CS directory from the registry. If you have more than one cs installation it will find the one you last ran from. You have the option to select another CS installation but the installer will force you to pick a VALID directory where CS is installed. Usually c:\Sierra\HALF-LIFE or C:\Sierra\Counter-Strike
2) The install will install Metamod and the entire PODBot folder and sub folders.
3) It will correctly set the liblist.gam file and also setup the /addons/Metamod/plugins.ini files.
4) What sort of icons should we give them? An icon to the read me and what else?

For an update install
1) When the installer is run and the install directory is chosen we check to see if podbot 2.6 is already installed on this machine. If it is already installed, another “upgrade” dialog will appear asking if they want to disable POD 2.6 and set their CS back the way it was before POD was installed or if they want to run the install again.

The overwrite options are new version only on the Metamod dll, and always on all the pod bot files. I suppose we should do better with this but what should we do about the PWF files? If we pick install only if newer, and we change the pwf’s we ship they will not match the pxp files and this will cause trouble. What should we do about pod config files? We have the same problem. If we modify a config they we could overwrite the ones they may have modified. ???

Take a look at it and let me know what you think for my 3 hours of effort.
Everything can be changed. Let me know what should be changed, what should be added....

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Austin Moderator Status: Offline Posts: 403 Join Date: Nov 2003	POD 2.6 Installer, first pass, need feedback - 23-03-2004 I have the first version of the Promised POD2.6 installer ready for some review. I started a new thread since the original one has almost 300 posts and 10K views! I knew an upgraded POD would be popular! Perhaps we need a forum dedicated to it? You can DL the installer here: http://austinbots.com/POD26.exe This is a first version (fully functional) that people can run, test it and give me feedback on, so we can work out exactly what it should do for a first time install and an upgrade / remove install. Here are the features. For a first time install it 1) Finds the HL or CS directory from the registry. If you have more than one cs installation it will find the one you last ran from. You have the option to select another CS installation but the installer will force you to pick a VALID directory where CS is installed. Usually c:\Sierra\HALF-LIFE or C:\Sierra\Counter-Strike 2) The install will install Metamod and the entire PODBot folder and sub folders. 3) It will correctly set the liblist.gam file and also setup the /addons/Metamod/plugins.ini files. 4) What sort of icons should we give them? An icon to the read me and what else? For an update install 1) When the installer is run and the install directory is chosen we check to see if podbot 2.6 is already installed on this machine. If it is already installed, another “upgrade” dialog will appear asking if they want to disable POD 2.6 and set their CS back the way it was before POD was installed or if they want to run the install again. The overwrite options are new version only on the Metamod dll, and always on all the pod bot files. I suppose we should do better with this but what should we do about the PWF files? If we pick install only if newer, and we change the pwf’s we ship they will not match the pxp files and this will cause trouble. What should we do about pod config files? We have the same problem. If we modify a config they we could overwrite the ones they may have modified. ??? Take a look at it and let me know what you think for my 3 hours of effort. Everything can be changed. Let me know what should be changed, what should be added.... Last edited by Austin; 23-03-2004 at 12:49..