Comment #2 on issue 567 by pekka.klarck: Fully Package Robot Framework and
associated libraries with each stable release
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=567
I understand this kind of a package would be nice but it's also pretty
impossible to
create. The biggest problem is that there are many different operating
systems to
support. Related to that, the dependencies for both RIDE and SSH library
require C
code which either needs to be compiled or got from a platform specific
binary
package. Another problem is that not everyone needs all the libraries so the
installation package should allow configuring what gets installed. Finally,
thee are
frequently new releases of the different components and their dependencies,
so the
one-big-installer should be updated constantly and tested on different
platforms
afterwards.
We've created Windows (XP) only OneClickInstaller which could probably be
enhanced to
install RIDE and some libraries in addition to Python, Jython and RF.
Similarly it
would be relatively easy to create custom shell script to install stuff
automatically
on UNIX-like machines. In general, having project specific installers that
install
beforehand selected packages on known platform is the approach we
recommend. Having
anything fully generic would, however, be really hard to implement.
Are you dragonfyre13 interested to work on this yourself, or do you have
ideas how to
overcome the problems I mention above?
