From kde-windows Mon Jan 08 09:18:04 2007 From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFyb3PFgmF3IFN0YW5pZWs=?= Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:18:04 +0000 To: kde-windows Subject: Re: kde installer in kdewin32 svn Message-Id: <45A20C4C.2050402 () iidea ! pl> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-windows&m=116824792504837 mark cox said the following, On 2007-01-08 06:52: > I'm not sure why you are re-inventing the wheel. inno setup is mature > installation software with many features and you can extend it to add those > missing features. In my experience, installers on windows always turn > out to > be much more complicated than anticipated and because inno setup is mature > it has already encountered and solved those problems. > website: www.innosetup.com Note: Inno Setup is ini-based and produces an exe file. Is exe file needed when we just need a custom extension that our "kde-setup" app will recognize? IMHO, I guess that installing KDE apps will not be similar to installing statically linked (or "all files in one dir") bundle as in windows. You have rather something similar to Fink, with taking dependencies into account. And kdewin32 installer gives us power here. There probably should not be "Select dest dir" question in the installer and similar questions. The remaining thing is: we need something like Inno (no NSIS) for the KDE runtimes installation (i.e. for bootstrapping). And here it of course can fit well. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Sponsored by OpenOffice Polska (http://www.openoffice.com.pl/en) to work on Kexi & KOffice: http://www.kexi-project.org, http://www.koffice.org KDE3 & KDE4 Libraries for MS Windows: http://kdelibs.com, http://www.kde.org _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows