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Re: Need Windows Installer Testers
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Christopher Armstrong |
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Re: Need Windows Installer Testers |
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Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:27:48 +1100 |
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Hi Adam
The installer is looking good. Anything that automates the install helps
significantly. I have some comments:
I see you have adapted the MINGW/MSYS installers. I assume that you will remove
their licence agreements and the link to their README files from your
installers (at the end of the MINGW/MSYS install package), and use GNUstep ones
instead.
It might be useful to combine the MINGW/MSYS and support libraries into one
installer. This way the user has less to download and they can still install
GNUstep from source if they choose to do so.
The "depends" installer lets the user choose which dependency libraries to install. These should
not be optional, because if the user installs your "core" package (the one actually containing
GNUstep) they will need all these libraries if the GNUstep install is pre-compiled. In fact, the
"depends" package shouldn't need to allow the user to change any optional bits and pieces anyway.
The msys link in the GNUstep start menu should probably be something like "GNUstep
Development Shell (msys)". I think you can also rename the window through a command
line option.
Lastly, I should admit I have been putting together an installer package for Windows (yes I know I should have said something, I didn't want to post it until it was almost done). We may be able to combine efforts, because most of my work has been automating the download of the file dependencies needed to put together an installer. That is, its a set of scripts used to generate an installer. However, I have been using Inno instead of NSIS to put the installer together and I'm yet to complete the MSYS .profile and fstab editing parts for MINGW (and some other parts). I like Inno because most things like dependency tracking and downloading is automated and it uses PASCAL instead of a stack-based scripting language, and it can be used as a 64bit installer binaries (when/if we need them). I avoided Wix/MSI because its restrictions make usage with GNUstep too tedious. I will my scripts as well (I may just finish them off first).
Regards
Chris
Adam Fedor wrote:
I finally have a new windows installer ready, but I'd like people to
test it out before I announce it generally. You should be able to
install the required installers and the Calculator.app installer and
"just run" the GNUstep Calculator app from the Start Menu (well I
thought that was pretty cool :-)).
I'm still working on things, but I bet there will be a bunch of
issues that crop up that I have never thought of. Please let me know
your experience with it! Also check for Viruses! My system is darn
clean, but you never know where things can sneak in.
See
http://www.gnustep.org/experience/Windows.html (The links on this
page may still be wrong)
or
ftp://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/binaries/windows
I'll have the installer scripts available on svn soon so you can help
improve them as well.
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