From: Richard Frith-Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Aaron G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: GNUstep Developers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Make Windows installers for each release...
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:44:11 +0000
On 28 Dec 2006, at 20:31, Aaron G wrote:
As someone who would use this, I like the idea. I use OS X and
Windows, and only use linux as a text-only vm, so It would be a great
help to be able to install this. Right now I only use this as a hobby,
but I could begin to help test things. If it wasnt a pain in the ass
to install.
On 12/28/06, Gregory John Casamento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Currently our release policy for windows has been a bit spotty. We
seem to release a version for Windows sporadically. I'd like to shoot
for having every release have a Windows installer available for it, if
that's possible.
Any thoughts on this?
Inspired by T.J Yang, i was thinking of investigating the possibility of
incorporating WiX support into gnustep-make (in the way that rpm support
is currently built in) and perhaps his idea of TWW tolls later.
If WiX support was in the make system, we could build windows install
packages trivially ... which would be great.
I think this is quite a long term goal to have GNUstep generate native
package format.
Currently we need to have a higher degree of automation(digitation) in the
GNUstep development and distribution mechanism. A ready to run binary is
much better than tar ball on ftp.gnu.org.
Regarding to WiX and GNUstep, I believe current installer is using nullsoft
for win32 packaging.
I wish we can release a version of win32 GNUstep using WiX. so that the
package source is in xml files that others can inherit,study and enhance
easily.
Last time I checked outWiX 2.x PMS, it require every file to have a UUID.
and it was hard to include files under a sub directory.
WiX 3.x is in beta but it has better support for subdirectory inclusion and
auto UUID generation.
Please let me know if you are interested to work on this project(win32
GNUstep by WiX).
Regards
tj
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