The customer just unpacks the tarball and runs a script to fire the whole thing up. We don't support Windows for this app, so I don't have any experience packaging for that platform. I think our other products which do run on Windows use an InstallShield installer.
alex On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
It needs to be deployed to Linux and Windows. I can't just tar /dir because I have .svn files I don't want to include as well as test directories. I planned on using a form of tar/zip.EricOn Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM, James Finstrom <[email protected] > wrote:What distro is it running, It is pretty simple to make RPM'sYou can also as suggested simply tar it up tar -czvf myapp.tar.gz / full/path/to/app/On the server tar -xzvf myapp.tar.gz -C /On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Eric Cope <[email protected]> wrote: Its a web app intended to install on internal web servers that should not have public access.On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:57 PM, keith smith <[email protected]> wrote:If this is a web app, then, why not use FTP? ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Thu, 3/11/10, Craig White <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Craig White <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Method of packaging software for shipment> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <[email protected] >> Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 10:27 AM > On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:19 -0700, > Eric Cope wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am wrapping a web application that is meant for > installation on my > > customer's servers. Does anyone have experience > packaging up software > > for shipment? What tools do you use? Can you offer any > advice? > ---- > probably just a tar/gzip but that would actually depend on > what the > application language is (php?) and what if any resources > need to be made > available (i.e. scripts for initializing an sql db, etc.) > and also the > platform (i.e. redhat only, or linux in general or all > possible OS > types). > > Craig > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- James Finstrom Rhino Equipment Corp. http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment IP: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
