Re: Packaging Windows apps so as not to require separate GNUstep install

[Gregory Casamento]

This was done by TestPlant with their product.  It's certainly possible.

GC

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 13.07.2010 19:54, schrieb Eric Wasylishen:
>> Hi,
>> Earlier this year I was working on porting a Cocoa app to windows
>> (http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2010/04/heres-toetag.html). There's
>> still a bit left to do before it's ready to release, but I was
>> wondering if anyone has investigated packaging Windows apps so they
>> can installed without requiring a separate step of installing GNUstep.
>>
>> I can think of three potential approaches:
>> 1. the approach GTK apps use. When you install Pidgin, for instance,
>> if you don't have the GTK runtime environment installed it will
>> automatically download and install it, so it's more or less
>> transparent to the user. Then, if you install other GTK apps they
>> should reuse the installed copy.
>>
>> 2. a normal installer which installs a private copy of the GNUstep
>> libraries in the application's directory.
>>
>> 3. "portable applications" - i.e., you just unzip a zip file, or run
>> the application inside it's app directory on a USB drive, and it works
>> on any computer.
>
> I don't see that big difference between the last two proposals. If the
> installer puts everything inside the application directory than a simple
> zip file will do just the same.
>
> A few years ago I packaged up an application that way, just for
> demonstration purposes. GNUstep has changed a lot since then, but the
> whole process should still be similar. Just a few configuration names
> may have changed. If you have problems with this approach I might be
> able to dig up the virtual Windows machine an have a look inside the
> application directory.
>
> Fred
>
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