Hi,

See inline.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Timotheus Pokorra
<timotheus.poko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> thanks for the very useful tool of NAnt! We are heavily using it for
> our OpenPetra project.
Glad to hear.
>
> But we have had now several problems with permissions for executing
> nant on Windows, from the Program Files directory. Also the creation
> of the nant.bat was not trivial, and could cause problems with
> permissions.
>
> The easy solution was to create a small InnoSetup Installer.
> You can download it from our files section at SourceForge:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpetraorg/files/openpetraorg/Tools/NAnt-Setup-0.91.exe/download
>
> The script file for InnoSetup looks like this:
>
> [Setup]
> AppName=NAnt
> AppVerName=NAnt 0.91
> DefaultDirName={pf}\NAnt
> DefaultGroupName=NAnt
> LicenseFile=nant-0.91\COPYING.txt
> OutputBaseFilename=NAnt-Setup-0.91
> [Files]
> Source: nant-0.91\*.*; DestDir: {app}; Flags: recursesubdirs createallsubdirs
> [Code]
> procedure CurStepChanged(CurStep: TSetupStep);
> begin
>  if CurStep=ssPostInstall then
>  begin
>    SaveStringToFile(ExpandConstant('{win}/nant.bat'),
> ExpandConstant('@"{app}\bin\NAnt.exe" %*'), False);
>  end;
> end;
>
> If you have trouble with your old NAnt installation, you should delete
> the folder first from the Program Files, before you run the installer!
>
> see also http://tpokorra.blogspot.com/2011/11/windows-installer-for-nant.html
This is interesting.  Just out of curiosity, what are the advantages
of using this compared to using another type of installer, such as
WiX?

Thanks,
Ryan
>
> Thanks again,
>  Timotheus
>
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