Hi PhilT, > Since you are considering only a MSVS environment, it looks far more > professional to have something like InstallShield.
Well, not exactly. I'm considering a *Windows* environment. And moreover, I use the *Express* version of Visual C++ (= no InstallShield). Your idea was nice, but unfortunately that doesn't suit my needs. > As to online and offline installers, I would go for offline everytime Well, I agree with you for critical or important apps. But what about a small game? I guess users are not the sames, and their needs aren't the same too. I guess I'll have to think about "big offline installers with everything included" for important apps, and "small online installers" for not important apps (and give both when in the middle!), eh? Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ Le Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:25:00 +0100, Philip Taylor <[email protected]> a écrit: > My 2p worth... > > Since you are considering only a MSVS environment, it looks far more > professional to have something like InstallShield. Creating it would seem to > be a relatively trivial task (when I watched someone else create one using a > VS 2003 InstallShield wizard in about 15 seconds). The only fly in the > ointment is deciding on a version that supports VS 7 (2003), 8 (2005) and 9 > (2008). > > As to online and offline installers, I would go for offline everytime > because I have worked on simulator sites that will never be connected to the > internet. It also means that come the fateful day when the hard disk dies, > the complete install is available from a local security backup rather than > relying on a hosting website to still be holding the exact version required > to restore the system. (This is a long term support issue - when was the > last time you tried to buy a 40MB Winchester hard disk??!! -- oops age > showing) > > PhilT > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Sukender > Sent: 23 February 2009 23:51 > To: OpenSceneGraph Users > Subject: [osg-users] Packaging distribution under Windows > > > Hi all Windows users (and others too, I'm not doing discrimination ;) ), > > Under Linux (& co), packages can have dependencies. Under Windows, we're far > to have such an easy system. > Question is: how could we redistribute efficiently the OSG binaries (I mean > when not linking statically) alongside our apps? > > Here are my suggestions, please share your thoughts. > 1. Manually copy the DLLs in the app's dir. That becomes a pain if you > select each DLL by hand, and you may have multiple copies for each app. > 2. Say to the user (s)he must download the OSG binaires. Not very user > firendly, IMO. > 3. Create a nice installer that contains the OSG packages. Thus the > installer become obese since we don't need all the DLLs... > 4. Create a nice installer that contains partial packages. Not very "clean" > to begin splitting packages I think. > 5. Create a nice installer that will download packages on the web. Nice, but > what about installing on a machine that has no connection? Should we provide > both "online" and "offline" installers? > > And about installers... Should we copy the DLLs to the system dir? What > about Vista and its strange policies about having access to system dirs (I > simply stayed under XP :D )? > > Thank you! > > PS: It seems I'm going to have an installer (or such) ten times bigger than > my app... (sigh) > > Sukender > PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
