GfK: Yeah but you could call "during application setup" as the first run of your app...
Maybe, but provided the permissions are correctly set, does it matter if its done during 'setup', or at the first run? And besides, I'd be more inclined to refer to running a program as 'application startup', not setup. Guess we'll start to see an end to distributing software via ZIP for those that know how to use them.
Not really. People who prefer their games by ZIP file generally wouldn't expect to be able to use them across a multi user environment without modification. And even if they did want to do that, they can always manually set permissions.The whole point of this thread has been to come up with a way of packaging software in such a way that it requires minimal effort for customers to get it up and running.
The older, more long-winded methods will still be valid.