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[Request] Installer options #995

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xerz-one opened this issue Jan 30, 2022 · 1 comment
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[Request] Installer options #995

xerz-one opened this issue Jan 30, 2022 · 1 comment
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@xerz-one
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Some software packages, like Microsoft Office, might come with different variants of the same program the user must choose before installing the package in question. Settings might be some such as the following:

  • Architecture
  • Language
  • Product tier ("Home", "Pro", etc)
  • Licensing ("Retail", "Volume", so on)

Bottles installers should thus be able to ask the user, in order to correctly prepare the installation process.

Two issues about implementation I can think of in particular:

  • UX, as there's many ways to ask users for install options. This could either be as simple and straighforward as showing dropdown lists with a GtkDropDown per option inside a GtkPopoverMenu when clicking the install button -- to showing custom, scripted dialogs a la Winetricks.
  • Static or dynamic implementation, that is, whenever each option is listed as its own program in the repo, or whenever one program YAML can receive parameters and configure the installation process based on them. Considering the complexity of having to update every single file and avoiding introducing new errors in the process in the static approach, I'm more inclined to the dynamic approach.
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Thank you for being so detailed

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