Posted December 23, 2014
vv221: Yes, running the installer through WINE still works for me. But like you’ve seen from other posts, it’s not working for everyone. WINE can not be taken as a reliable mean to access the installers contents, as its efficiency can vary greatly from one setup to another.
if you say it like that, you also have to say that wine can not be taken as a reliable way to play the game. If you regard wine as unreliable, then there is really not point in arguing about the reliability of the installer *shrug* The thing is that InnoSetup is still being actively developed. So if we rely on third-party reverse-engineered software to access these installers and this software stops working with a new version then that is _our_ problem and we can't really blame GOG for that.
The good thing is that wine is open source and we can fix it to also work reliable with these new installers. So I would be much more interested in why these new installers don't work anymore in wine.
vv221: These new installers incompatible with innoextract aren’t perennial like the previous were: I’m depending either on future Windows version to not break the compatibility (I wouldn’t bet on this, seeing that it’s precisely Windows poor retro-compatibility that bring us GOG in the first place).
You can't depend on future windows versions to be compatible with the game itself. What's the point worrying about the installer? The only thing you can rely on is that the game (and installer) works with XP, Vista, Windows 7 or whatever is stated on the game page. Worrying that the installer might not work in Windows 21 is a bit unnecessary when most likely the game itself won't work any more. In any case you rely on GOG to update things to be compatible with future windows version. Might as well accept that.
@Ganni1987
yeah it is doable, but why would you want to do it? Hunting through the .iss file and then getting that info in the registry seems much more work than simply running the installer.
Post edited December 23, 2014 by immi101