Invisible wrote:
> All I know is that we used to use one bit of software that required the 
> .NET 1.1 runtime,

So the fact they're up to 3.5.x doesn't signal that maybe something 
different is going on nowadays?  Damn, if everyone using Linux or something 
said "Gee, when I tried it 5 years ago, it was a PITA to install, so I never 
looked at it again" it never would have gotten off the ground.

.NET comes with Windows nowadays. If you don't have it on there already, 
chances are you don't have an internet connection fast enough to download a 
program, either.

> which basically meant you had to wait 25 to 30 minutes 
> for the runtime to install 

Wouldn't it have made more sense to put it on a CD and install it?

> before you could install the actual program 
> itself (which took about 3 minutes to install). I always wondered why 
> the hell anybody would develop software this way...

Because you only have to do it once, and it's a pretty nice infrastructure.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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