To be honest, I don't have a clear opinion on this.<div>IMHO, we should choose the installer that is easier to work with and offers most flexibility.</div><div>It's quite typical to have an installer for Windows programs. I have worked with some</div>
<div>installers under *nix too (e.g. Oracle's, but that's too specialized).</div><div><br></div><div>All in all, I believe that for *nix based systems an installer isn't strictly necessary, as an</div><div>rpm or deb package are just as easy to install there. I think that we already offer a pkg</div>
<div>for MacOS systems, too (please correct me if I'm wrong here). So the question, at least</div><div>for me, boils down to which installer we should use for Windows (again, please correct</div><div>me if I'm wrong).</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, all in all, I believe we should use whatever is easier to work with and more flexible,</div><div>and allows us to easily wrap the final files automatically via a variety of platforms (so</div><div>
that buildbot can package them).</div><div><br></div><div>As for the size... again, I don't think that a 500kb difference is anything to worry about,</div><div>especially nowadays. So at least this point is moot, imho.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Finally, I have the utmost respect for fingolfin and the way he handles and coordinates</div><div>the project. We can't all agree on everything, but I think that we can reach a decision</div><div>if we discuss this on -devel. Heated discussions and arguments don't help.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Filippos</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Johannes Schickel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lordhoto@scummvm.org">lordhoto@scummvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 04/28/2011 04:33 PM, Vladimir Menshakov wrote:
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<div> </div>
<div>28.04.2011, 17:56, "Johannes Schickel"
<a href="mailto:lordhoto@scummvm.org" target="_blank"><lordhoto@scummvm.org></a>:</div>
<blockquote>On 04/28/2011 03:06 PM, Alex Bevilacqua wrote:
<blockquote>I
personally would prefer NSIS over InnoDB, but I'm curious if
it may make more sense to investigate BitRock instead. Though
it's proprietary, they offer an open source license (which I'm
sure ScummVM would have no trouble proving eligibility for
:P).
<div> </div>
</blockquote>
<br>
Since it's proprietary I am strongly against it, even *if* they
would give us some open source license.<br>
</blockquote>
<div>Maybe I missed that someone mentioned Wix, I could make
installer scripts for it. :)</div>
<div>It's open-source, written by m$ and produces standard MSI
installation files tightly integrated with windows installer.
Why do we use any third-party hackish tools?</div>
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I am not aware that Wix runs on Linux and thus on our buildbot
though. But maybe I just missed something?<br><font color="#888888">
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// Johannes<br>
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PS: Could you please use plain text mails? Thanks in advance, since
it is rather annoying to read HTML mails for some people...<br>
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