Makes sense to me, not to mention reaping the benefits of whatever the common XPI code offers (from so many additionaly programmers).
Jeff Michael Kaply wrote: > We looked at WarpIn and honestly it just didn't do the type of things we > needed to do for the Mozilla installer. > > Even the most basic of dependencies didn't work, and the quality (polish) > wasn't there. > > We'd prefer to use the Mozilla look and feel so we are consistent with the > other platforms. > > Mike > > "J. Robinson" wrote: > > >>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 >> >>-- >>---------------- >>Whatza JamochaMUD? >>http://jamochamud.anecho.mb.ca >> >>Or other stuff: http://www.anecho.mb.ca/~jeffnik >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > > -- ---------------- Whatza JamochaMUD? http://jamochamud.anecho.mb.ca Or other stuff: http://www.anecho.mb.ca/~jeffnik -----------------------------------------------------------
