Graeme Geldenhuys <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyway, I would like to know what features your guys (as developers) > would like to see in a setup program.
I can think of the one additional feature: * Checking dependencies. There is no such problem in fpGUI apps since the only dependency is X :) But Lazarus apps can be stuck to specific GTK/QT version(s). I can remember posts about the GTK API change that made some Lazarus applications crash. Then, there is a plenty of other external libraries our applications can use. I can imagine this as a "missing dependencies" message that is shown if some required library was not found. This seems to be quite difficult though, given the requirement of Linux distro independency... > * Automatic icon creation on desktop and Application/Start menu. And this seems not so easy too.. Paul Ishenin <[email protected]> wrote: > My wish list - port innosetup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) > which is written in delphi and is opensource project. We are using it > for lazarus windows installs. This could help very much in the adoption of new install system. Though I think old school Linux users would hate it anyway (according to my observations), it would be good for newcomers if the setup configuration files/scripts look like one of the exisiting install system, such as InnoSetup/NSIS/whatever. In this case InnoSetup has the advantage of PascalScript, that makes it easier to port. So the above suggesion can form one more feature request: * Familiar syntax of configuration files/scripts. -- Best regards, Vladimir Zhirov -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
