For our Rails application at my job (which bundles Ruby, Apache, Postgres, etc, etc...), we install everything into a scratch directory, use find to remove all .svn files, and make a tarball of the result. There's a lot more that goes on, but that's the basic process.

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.

Eric

On 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's

You 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?

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--- 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).
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> Craig
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