Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> That makes perfect sense to me. Calling it an "installer" does not.
> Knowing that I'd be willing to try it.
>
You are talking about both.
- The executable is compiled for windoze. You can probably download it
separately, put it on disk and run it fine.
- The installer is like most winders installers, a one time executable
that uncompresses the target executable, walks the user through picking
where to install, what options to install, what startup menu group to
add a shortcut to, whether to put shortcuts on desktop and/or taskbar,
etc. It may or may not also make registry entries. My limited experience
of compiling and/or installing open source apps has been that they may
not need registry registration.
I haven't tried the GIMP for a long time, so I'm sure it's changed since
then.
Like you, I can't get very excited about learning another tool when I
have so much time and experience in PS. even if another app is as
powerful and useful, a very different UI would set me back a lot.
Moose
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