Windows deployment

[Scott Kane]

> I'm getting ready to release a program for Mac and Windows, but I'm 
> mostly a Mac guy, so PC issues are pretty foreign to me. The program 
> doesn't have any complex installation needs, but I've heard 
> talk of the 
> Windows Registry, write priviledges, etc. What do I need to know to 
> distribute my app to Windows users? For testing this I've just been 
> copying it to my Windows Desktop and running it from there. 
> I've had no 
> problems with that, but I'm sure there are things I need to 
> be educated 
> about.

If you are not writing to the registry (which is done explicitly in
your app') then you don't need to worry about that.  As for installation
location, 99% of the time - if a general small business or consumer
application -
the Program Files directory is fine.  In the rare instance you can't
write to this
then let the user specify where to install it.

Scott