* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2006-03-08 15:27:39]:
> The hacks will work even on foreign language versions of Windows? > Yes, the VBA script will work but might get into trouble with some AV-softwares. > Even if you can't maintain it, getting it working is a big step > forwards, if we can solve all the below problems. > > Sticking with antinstaller has the advantage of not having to rewrite > the existing rather nice GUI; only switch if it's not possible to > cleanly and effectively do what we need with antinstaller but it is with > IzPack... > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:35:20AM +0100, Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What do we need ? > > 1) an "installer" asking for configuration options, > > writing a freenet.ini file > > > > 2) a "packager" setting up a jvm if necessary and launching the > > installer > > > > 3) a bunch of hacks to create desktop icons (included in > > IzPack) or some custom scripting (mostly done) > > > > 4) a "daemonizer" ; a startup script ensuring the > > node/jvm is alive > > > > My choices are : > > > > 1) > > http://www.izforge.com/izpack/ or http://antinstaller.sourceforge.net/ > > Izpack seems to be better, but I've started using antinstaller > > and I'm to lazy to switch :/ > > > > my only concern is that antinstaller doesn't provide any > > "uninstaller" ... too bad ;) > > > > @Ian or Toad : should it be considered as an issue ? > > > > 2) > > http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/ for native binaries and JWS > > otherwise > > > > 3) > > they are in svn under /apps/antinsintaller/installclasspath/ > > > > 4) > > http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/properties.html > > > > Has anyone anything to say regarding those choices ? > > > > I'm not keen on the idea of doing the installer myself as I > > don't have access to a windows box... And most of the problems > > are windows related ; Still, it needs to be done :/ > > > > If anyone is interested in doing it ^-^ ;) > > > > Regards, > > NextGen$ > > > > PS: I'll have less time to contribute in the coming months, so I'm not > > going to maintain the installer :p > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devl mailing list > > Devl at freenetproject.org > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060308/ddcc26e9/attachment.pgp>
