From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5gbrcsahck.fsf@patl=users.sf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217155747.GL26712@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Christopher Faylor writes:
> Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be
> pressed into service for use with cygwin?
NSIS has already been mentioned.
The other open-source utility I know of is Inno Setup
(http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php).
But if you really want to do yourself and your users a favor, you will
find some way to produce .msi packages (see
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#msi). MSI is
Microsoft's standard, and it provides several nice things
automatically, such as "Add/Remove Programs", unattended installation,
integration with SuS, and so on.
MSI also has a model for "components" which you might be able to
leverage.
The only problem is that the free tools for producing MSI packages are
fairly nascent. See, for instance, <http://izfree.sourceforge.net/>
and <http://msi2xml.sourceforge.net/>.
- Pat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-17 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-17 14:36 setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors Bernhard Sammer
2004-12-17 14:55 ` Max Bowsher
2004-12-17 15:45 ` Can't configure setup.exe from CVS [was RE: setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors] Dave Korn
2004-12-17 15:56 ` Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative) Christopher Faylor
2004-12-17 16:17 ` Dave Korn
2004-12-17 16:30 ` Christopher Faylor
2004-12-17 18:59 ` Patrick J. LoPresti [this message]
2004-12-18 23:13 ` Yadin Goldschmidt
2004-12-29 12:42 ` Max Bowsher
2004-12-29 12:52 ` Can't configure setup.exe from CVS [was RE: setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors] Max Bowsher
[not found] ` <41C30D75.4030509@inode.at>
2004-12-18 12:23 ` setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors Max Bowsher
2004-12-19 16:17 ` setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors & setup alternatives Bernhard Sammer
2004-12-19 20:34 ` setup.exe 2.427 problem with installation from rsync mirrors Patrick J. LoPresti
2004-12-17 16:52 Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative) fergus
2004-12-18 3:18 Gary R. Van Sickle
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