From kde-windows Mon Jan 08 21:44:46 2007 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_K=FCmmel?= Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:44:46 +0000 To: kde-windows Subject: Re: kde installer in kdewin32 svn Message-Id: <45A2BB4E.8070508 () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-windows&m=116829269402532 Peter Kümmel wrote: > mark cox wrote: >> 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 >> >> mark >> >> >> On 1/8/07, Ralf Habacker wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> there is an updated spec of the installer available on >>> >>> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin32/installer/doc/readme.txt?rev=620682&view=auto >>> >>> . >>> >>> >>> Any suggestions too or sombody want's to help coding beside Christian >>> Ehrlicher, who had contributed already some patches ? >>> >>> Ralf >>> > > I use inno setup here: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29557&package_id=57553&release_id=425927 > (the .exe). It has a pascal like syntax, and when > you wanna distribute all files within a directory and wanna call > some .bat files it is very convenient. > It has a build-in 7zip compression. > > Wouldn't it be the simplest to just ship all files in one package. > When someone doesn't want some specific libraries he should > do it like a expert and use svn checkouts. We are on Windows and we love it to install hundreds of megabytes ;) > Peter > _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows