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Mostly this is a reaction to the reports of Inno Setup having a DLL hijacking vulnerability. But also, the new installer has several other nice features that our Inno Setup one didn't provide: it can put the PuTTY install directory on PATH automatically, and it supports completely automatic and silent install/uninstall via 'msiexec /q' which should make it easier for sysadmins to roll out installation in large organisations. Also, it just seems like good sense to be using Windows's own native packaging system (or closest equivalent) rather than going it alone. (And on the developer side, I have to say I like the fact that WiX lets me pass in the version number as a set of command-line #define- equivalents, whereas for Inno Setup I had to have Buildscr apply Perl rewriting to the source file.) For the moment, I'm still building the old Inno Setup installer alongside this one, but I expect to retire it once the WiX one has survived in the wild for a while and proven itself more or less stable. I've found both MSI and WiX to be confusing and difficult technologies, so this installer has some noticeable pieces missing (e.g. retrospective reconfiguration of the installed feature set, and per-user vs systemwide installation) simply because I couldn't get them to work. I've commented the new installer source code heavily, in the hope that a passing WiX expert can give me a hand!
PuTTY README
============
This is the README file for the PuTTY installer distribution. If
you're reading this, you've probably just run our installer and
installed PuTTY on your system.
What should I do next?
----------------------
If you want to use PuTTY to connect to other computers, or use PSFTP
to transfer files, you should just be able to run them from the
Start menu.
If you want to use the command-line-only file transfer utility PSCP,
you will probably want to put the PuTTY installation directory on
your PATH. On Windows 7 and similar versions, you can do this at
Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system
settings > Environment Variables.
Some versions of Windows will refuse to run HTML Help files (.CHM)
if they are installed on a network drive. If you have installed
PuTTY on a network drive, you might want to check that the help file
works properly. If not, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054
for information on how to solve this problem.
What do I do if it doesn't work?
--------------------------------
The PuTTY home web site is
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Here you will find our list of known bugs and pending feature
requests. If your problem is not listed in there, or in the FAQ, or
in the manuals, read the Feedback page to find out how to report
bugs to us. PLEASE read the Feedback page carefully: it is there to
save you time as well as us. Do not send us one-line bug reports
telling us `it doesn't work'.