I have never tried but it seems you can wrap installer in MSI files
using WiX http://wixtoolset.org/ and this package http://www.exemsi.com/
To write the installer check this out:
http://code.google.com/p/biosmalltalk/wiki/NSISInstallerScript
Hernán
El 26/08/2013 17:29, Usman Bhatti escribió:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Stéphane Ducasse
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have experience of distributing Pharo-based software
as an MSI installer package to be installed by clients?
what is an MSI?
Microsoft installer, a packaging for windows-based software that allows
installation of the software on a windows machine: creation of registry
keys, Start menu items, looking for previous installations of the
software and upgrading it, etc.
> I would particularly like to know the tool that was used to
create the MSI.
Do you mean installing a Pharo App?
What means installing?
So, it would mean that Pharo app is installed on a client machine:
creating directory hierarchy, placing image and vm files and any scripts
that come with the image, and creating windows shortcuts. For the time,
its a question from a client so I thought someone might have some
relevant exp.
Because if you ship an image in essence:
you ship one image
with an opening image saying installing….
then you save
>
> regards,
>
> Usman Bhatti
