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[Swatchel]

url http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe is unreachable now. Please fix this url in your code

[GerHobbelt]

If it'd be that easy 😉

Relevant materials:

• https://github.com/domgho/innodependencyinstaller/commit/ce85626e61cc9e1dacb9578e8e04ab9d435d9edc#r16322373-permalink
• https://github.com/domgho/innodependencyinstaller/issues/12
• Hunting down isxdl.dll:
  • http://www.istool.net/downloads.html
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6076427/running-setup-exe-created-by-inno-setup-and-get-isxdl-dll-was-not-found#6189026

Preliminary conclusion: ISXDL.dll for InnoSetup doesn't seem to support HTTPS and this (and other) old downloads have migrated to HTTPS URLs.

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The overarching question, by the way, is whether we should bother with this at all, as the .NET code is only supported on Microsoft-supported platforms anyway: .NET 4.6+ is Windows 7 and above and this stuff is for obsoleted platforms WinXP/Win9x AFAICT.

[GerHobbelt]

Hm 🤔 Hadn't realized we've got seagull style processing on github too: https://github.com/Swatchel?tab=overview&from=2020-02-01&to=2020-02-29 - that's 115 issues, all copy/paste one and the same, no follow-up, i.e. no responses from the source after that day. 🤡

Closing this. Antiquated.