Michael Kaply wrote:

> 1. XPINSTALL wizard (mozilla/xpinstall/wizard/os2)
> 
> This is the code that produces a pretty install. We have some code
> there, but it was an attempt to port the Windows code and never really
> came to anything.

If I recall correctly at one time the suggestion had come up to try 
using WarpIn as the Mozilla installer on OS/2.

I know (at least from the documentation) that WarpIn can create a few 
different types of installs:
1) Pure WarpIn package (requires a pre-installed version of WarpIn to 
install)
2) A simple stub .exe install (it will search the user's system for a 
pre-existing WarpIn and automagically use that for installing, so the 
.wpi extension doesn't confuse end-users).
3) A minimal stub .exe install (contains a minimal version of WarpIn so 
can do the whole self-extracting install, but the user needs a copy of 
WarpIn itself if they're like to do a "clean un-install").
4) A full .exe install (This packages an entire version of WarpIn with 
your archive, so that the .exe will install both simultaneously).

Was the concept of using WarpIn shelved, or was it just due to developer 
time?  This could certainly be a project I'd be interested in looking at 
it it hasn't been written off.

Jeff

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