Why is the TOAD 9.1 installer so huge?
From a question on the Toad email group, answer supplied by Matt Wilkins : As the developer of the new Toad for Oracle installer MSI, I will explain. One of the standard features of all MSIs is that each unique MSI installer has a higher level of self-awareness. Have you ever noticed the “maintenance” screen you’ll get when you attempt to install a program over itself without first removing it? The choices are usually “Modify”, “Repair” or “Remove”. This is because the MSI looks immediately at the registry to check its install state. Our previous installers were done in WiseScript, and they did not care if there were concurrent installs; you could simply install it again and the registry would be overwritten. Microsoft wants their Windows installers to clean up after themselves more efficiently, hence concurrent installs become problematic. Our Toad installer for network client and server demands that the installer be run twice– once for the server and once again for the client. This w
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