On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:33:27PM +0100, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote: > * 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.
Would IzPack be better from this perspective? > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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. -------------- 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/c84788cc/attachment.pgp>
