Re: ROTunes v0.08 now available to download

On 6 Feb 2006 Paul Vigay <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Therefore, version 0.08 is now supplied with my new 'Universal Application
Installer', which takes you step-by-step through the installation process -
either to upgrade a previous version or to install a new version.

WHY ON EARTH would you subject RISC OS users to such unnecessary crap?

RISC OS does NOT need installation programs for simple applications.

After following all those pointless steps, including the stupid licence which
no one reads, it doesn't even work properly. If there is already a copy the
chosen directory, it just sprinkles that directory with the application files
rather than putting them inside !ROTunes.

Please remove the installer and never darken another RISC OS machine with
such abominations.

---druck

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