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• M_Lyons10 commented  ·  December 1, 2011 1:23 p.m.  ·  Delete

  This gets my vote. This would be a really great improvement to Inno Setup. :) If it could check for prerequisites and download them if necessary, that would make it a lot easier on developers and users for sure.

• AdminDeanna Earley (Admin, Inno Setup) commented  ·  October 15, 2011 9:10 a.m.  ·  Delete

  There are already plenty of samples and script addons that do exactly that. One on the ISXKB is http://www.vincenzo.net/isxkb/index.php?title=.NET_-_Detect_framework

• JamesHurst commented  ·  October 14, 2011 3:26 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Yes! -- for me this is an absolute deal-breaker. I'm evaluating different installers for the C# program tools I'm creating, and they absolutely have to be able to detect whether the .NET Framework is installed and put that on if necessary. Why isn't there a FAQ or script-addon that handles that?

• Radjesh commented  ·  June 2, 2011 1:43 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Got my vote. Would love to see an easier way to implement (multiple) prerequisites. Frameworks is one of the most used frameworks around, but the implementation is way to hard for a lot of (beginning) users, due to the lack of Pascal knowledge. If you want more people to use INNOSETUP make it easier to implement.

  So my request is to provide an easy way to download the prerequisite(s) and an easy way to distribute the prerequisite(s) within the setup.

• Jayke Huempfner commented  ·  April 14, 2011 10:28 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I would love to have this feature. In fact, that fact that this feature isn't in there is the only reason why I'm not using InnoSetup right now... I

• Matt commented  ·  April 7, 2011 5:34 a.m.  ·  Delete

  This feature would be welcomed. I have resorted to simply including the .NET 4.0 framework in my package and dealing with the additional size just to avoid customer complaints about prerequisite installations. i would much prefer a solid foundation within IS to deal with this automatically.

• Matt commented  ·  April 7, 2011 5:34 a.m.  ·  Delete

  This feature would be welcomed. I have resorted to simply including the .NET 4.0 framework in my package and dealing with the additional size just to avoid customer complaints about prerequisite installations. i would much prefer a solid foundation within IS to deal with this automatically.

• rom commented  ·  December 21, 2010 1:28 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Ath: the only script for handling .NET Framework dependency on ISXKB is pretty darn lame, in that it doesn't offer any of the automatic handling actually requested here.

• Anthony Daly commented  ·  October 1, 2010 12:50 p.m.  ·  Delete

  In my experience, having to adapt, update and include scripts from all over the internet just to include common prerequisites with your installer can take a lot of effort. Assuming that the installer would download the prerequisites from the vendor's site, Inno Setup would not be bloated. My suggestion is to just provide a simple compiler directive to tell the installer to download the required prerequisites during the installation. This is a requirement that is by default included in just about all commercial installer builders, and in my opinion, it would be a neat feature!

  For installations that do not wish to use an internet connection, there could be another compiler directive specifying the location of the prerequisite files on the users machine (probably in the 'temp' directory) during the installation. This way the prerequisite files never have to be included directly with Inno Setup, which keeps the size of Inno almost the same as what it would be otherwise without this feature.

• Ath commented  ·  September 27, 2010 12:50 p.m.  ·  Delete

  That can all be done using script snippets available from the ISXKB wiki site. No need to include it when you (or I) don't need it, there are already enough bloated installer builders.
  Please first discuss any requests in the newsgroups!