What is the benefit and real purpose of program installation?
问题 Of all the programs I wrote so far, If I want it to work on another work station, I just have to copy and paste the executable and necessary files needed to make it run (e.g: .o files, binary files..). But all the program built for commercial use always comes with an installer. For example PC games. So my question is: What is the main benefits/reasons of doing installation when we could just simply copy the files over to the targetted work station? -One of the reason is probably to prevent