On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:06:55AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > already implemented or at least went through the brain storming and design > idea phase. Here is our requirements and ideas we came up with: > > * Linux distro independent setup. Against the normal methods, we do not > want to waist time creating .rpm, .deb, .tgz, .tbz etc setups for the > thousands of Linux distros out there. Adobe Reader, Jave SDK and JRE > are just a few applications that don't follow the package management > systems of each distro.
(it might be wise to check out in how far these named programs are shared linked) > * The setup must be configurable at runtime. We have a single setup.xml > file that controls the setup. (Doesn't this violate single file?) > * Automatic icon creation on desktop and Application/Start menu. Do you plan to support windowmaker? A lot of packages do this wrong under Windowmaker. > We are primarily targeting deployment of Free Pascal based applications, > but the setup engine should be flexible enough to handle any type of > application (we hope). :) > We will probably release the setup and setup builder as Open Source > software once done. I hope to create sample setups of Lazarus or FPC itself > to show how it can be done. > > So what feature do you require in a setup that we did not think of? What's > your wish list? Autoinstall of CHM help. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
