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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: InstallShield for KDE?
From:       Boris Povazay <boris () jouh ! at>
Date:       1999-11-04 0:08:18
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"Cory R. Crooks" wrote:

> IMHO the hardest part about this is the "front end" to the README. We
> want something so that newbie's DON'T have to read text files to install
> something. We want them to be able to select a few options (or have
> those options selected for them), and then hit the "Install" button and
> not worry. If it were feasible to parse some abitrary file (README or
> not) and extract compile time options, installation directories
> (specially for pre-built binaries w/ wierd install paths like "Put xyz
> where libsomething.so.1 is, but don't put abc their, put abc in where
> libsomethinelse.so.1.0 is, and symlink it to ... you get my drift), and
> other useful info, it wouldn't be all that hard to implement the rest...

Well the installer could read a "distribution"-file that holds
systemwide information of where to usually store the files. This would
allow to deal with distrib-dependent setups.

ciao BoP
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Boris Povazay
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