Windows Installers and 32/64 bit

Rod Widdowson rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Thu Sep 25 08:58:35 EDT 2014


> For Raptor, I ended up with a single MSI for 32 and 64 bit, and to figure
out
> JAVA_HOME I’ve ended up looking in the registry and figuring it out rather
that
> using the system provided one, like so:

Neat.  But I'm always slightly leery of reaching into other people's
unsupported registry settings or data structures and I'd sooner avoid it if
possible.
 
> Of course, if you want a system provided JAVA_HOME then that’s obviously
the
> wrong approach to take!

Yea, that’s another advantage - to be able to test against different JDKs
just by pointing.  But that’s not really an overriding concern.

I'll take a steer from others - having two different installer just to set
one bit in the header seems like overkill..
R



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