Handle MSI with LessMSI

[mirh]

Handle MSI with LessMSI

[vatterspun]

That is literally the MIT License.

Confirmed.

Oh, I'm glad somebody even cares for old potato XP d:

• As of this writing, it still has more users than Vista and Windows 8 combined. That's not a small number.
• Compatibility with older operating systems tends to make programs more compatible with WINE.
• Although the program is already considered portable by virtue of how settings are handled, programs that work on older computers are more portable.

[vatterspun]

LessMSI dependency note: Oh and LessMSI uses dotNET 4.0 so computers that don't have that or are otherwise restricted from that toolset for security reasons will not be able to use it. There may also be issues for Windows XP users now or in the future since Microsoft doesn't release updates to dotNET for that platform anymore.

There's discussion on reducing or minimizing this dependency but that's the current status.

It's also less portable as fewer machines have dotNET 4.0 installed, meaning if you plug a USB drive into an older computer, it can't run LessMSI.

[Bioruebe]

This is how it works now: A registry check is done to find out if .NET 4 or newer is installed. If it was found, lessmsi is used without any prompt, otherwise the old MethodSelect function is executed.

[vatterspun]

License note: appears compatible with Universal Extractor 2, however it is standard copyright: https://github.com/activescott/lessmsi/blob/master/LICENSE and doesn't specifically mention how the source is to be handled.

[acook]

@vatterspun That is literally the MIT License.
http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/

[Bioruebe]

Cool, the link to the project, license and dependency information. You're making it really easy for me to add new features. Thank you 👍

I'm not sure about the other extractors for msi files. Lessmsi works better them all of them (good find @mirh) but keeping some of them for users without .NET 4 makes sense. Maybe adding a runtime check for the installed version with a fallback to the currently used method choice would work best here.

[mirh]

Oh, I'm glad somebody even cares for old potato XP d:
Though, if any.. Would it be possible to just show this when NET is available, otherwise the old tools?

[vatterspun]

A registry check is done to find out if .NET 4 or newer is installed. If it was found, lessmsi is used without any prompt, otherwise the old MethodSelect function is executed.

Sounds good, thanks.