From kde-windows  Wed Jan 03 00:36:48 2007
From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFyb3PFgmF3IFN0YW5pZWs=?= <js () iidea ! pl>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:36:48 +0000
To: kde-windows
Subject: Re: kde installer in kdewin32 svn
Message-Id: <459AFAA0.5010306 () iidea ! pl>
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Ralf Habacker said the following, On 2007-01-03 01:31:
> Hi,
> 
> some month ago there was work done to get a kde installer for win32.
> 
> The idea is to have a qt command line and/or gui application, which 
> makes it possible to download and install
> 
> - gnuwin32 and/or win32libs related packages
> - kde binary and source packages
> - packages from other sources
> 
> 
> The design allows to use different download types (for example from a 
> sourceforge project or other locations reachable by http) and/or 
> different download mirrors.
> 
> The command line tool works currently well for gnuwin32 related 
> packages. Adding additional installer for example to install 7zip 
> packages from the win32libs download area is very easy. Using an 
> different download strategy is also easy.
> 
> The gui installer is in a very early state and not functional.
> 
> The sources could inspected on using 
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin32/installer/

Great! IMHO it's a good choice to have own installer. I use NSIS on win32 for 
KDElibs3 and I am already tired because of this. Also MSI installers will not 
get us as much control as the hand-made one.

-- 
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