[Scribus] Windows Installer

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 13 March 2006 22:03, Philipp Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a small suggestion for the Windows installer. Would it be
> possible, to have a check at the beginning of the installer if
> GhostScript (new enough version) and the GDI+-lib is installed and if
> not, grab it from the internet and install it first? A lot of windows
> user are not used to read a page of instructions first before installing
> a software package, so I got already a couple questions from friends to
> explain to them how the installation works (well, some of them didn't
> understand english and so weren't able to understand the instruction
> page on the homepage).

I'm not sure exactly what we can do there. We could even include GDI+, but we 
decided due to its distribution license, that *distributing it* clashed with 
our licenses enough to not do so. You have to go click on their special sign 
your life away page, or get it from some other source..

We can probably put a check in though.

Craig
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