George Lober wrote: > The few that caught my eye were very basic, and not workable with closed > source commercial software. > > http://developer.berlios.de/projects/fixinst/ > http://autopackage.org/
We looked at projects like AutoPackage (I really liked this one), ZeroInstall, etc... All nice, but unfortunately they first require a "runtime" to be installed *before* you can install *.package files. That's no good, because not a single mainstream distro comes standard with those runtime packages pre-installed. The Installer itself shouldn't have such requirements, it should just run. > Besides the deployment issues, another thing that discourages me from > writing software for Linux is the virtual non existence of anti-cracking > software. I know what you mean. We flew 1200km to the biggest Security Confrence in South Africa and spoke to every single vendor there. Not one had "anti-cracking" security software for Linux. Windows sure, but not Linux. So we had to implemented that ourselves. We can now lease software, lock to hardware, xx-day evaluation, etc... Unfortunately that code is not open source. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
