Questions About the New Single-Click Installer

Hi @MichaelDonn ,

I hope you don’t mind that I moved this to a new topic since there are a lot several questions you are asking here that aren’t related to the 1.5 release.

Most operating systems do more hand-holding than is necessary for a typical user. For example, I think you probably get this same Windows Defender message when using the single-click installer for the latest versions of Radiance. We can eventually get this message to go away if we pay a service to get our installers certified but this hasn’t been a priority since most people running the installer know that they can trust our software. If we get more sales of the Pollination CAD plugins, we can pay for this installer certification sooner than later but, for now, just clicking “More Info” and “Run Anyway” hopefully shouldn’t complicate the install process too much.

You are right that it seems we included the license of the Pollination Rhino plugin in the free Pollination Grasshopper installer. I think @MingboPeng should be able to change this when he gets the chance but, in the meantime, I think the heading makes it pretty clear that this license is not for the Pollination Grasshopper plugin but rather for the paid Rhino plugin. So users do not need to worry about the consequences of this particular license if they are only using the Pollination Grasshopper plugin.

I think this one might be specific to your machine but @MingboPeng will know for sure. It’s possible that the single-click installer is only removing old installations of Ladybug Tools and not old installations of the Pollination Grasshopper plugin, in which case, we should add another check for this in the installer.