Andre Poenitz wrote: > Sorry for being intentionally off-topic... > > I need to come up with recommendation for a way to build Windows > installer for a fairly convoluted project 'soonish'. > > It's not just the ordinary bunch of a few .exe and .dlls but will > also include e.g. Python, an X server and other gimmicks. > > It also needs to be able to cleanup leftovers from previous > instalations, most notably stuff from two other X servers. > > It would be nice if it could be used to 'natively' install stuff in a > mixed 32/64 bit environment and if there was some 'update over the net' > feature. > > My personal preference would be a completely scriptable solution, > possibly with a wizard or so to get started over some monolithic GUI. > > It does not need to be free. > > Has anybody a strong opinion on what might work best? > > I so far had quick a look at > NSIS - scriptable (good!), but awful language > InnoSetup - about the same
I know InnoSetup a little bit. The scripting language is pascal-like, and for small projects the learning curve has a big positive first derivative. But I don't know if you could also handle more complex projects. But InnoSetup is not cross-platform, maybe this is already a knock out criterion. > InstallShield 8 - does not look scriptable, custom tasks > look possible, but fairly convoluted. > > Andre' > > -- Peter Kümmel
