Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-18 Thread Gomez Henri
Frankly, Apache (HTTPd) went on for ages without installers, and it just went great... I don't see the need for it. On Unixes world Apache is easy to build and install but it's not so easy under Windows Boxes. More Windows users want to have such installer stuff and if you want to see Windows

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-18 Thread Gomez Henri
Why the heck does it matter what installer software that we use? As usually Jon, you only see what you want in the thread. JF proposed to use a JAVA OpenSource Installer, something you should understand and be agree with it to install java software on many platforms As long as people can

RE: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-17 Thread GOMEZ Henri
A Java installer is what we need, OpenSource one of course. Installing a Java product should not be too related to the platform on which it is installed, installing is just copying the right files at the right place. (well may a little more ;-)). Does someone knows about such a tool? It seems

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-17 Thread jean-frederic clere
GOMEZ Henri wrote: A Java installer is what we need, OpenSource one of course. Installing a Java product should not be too related to the platform on which it is installed, installing is just copying the right files at the right place. (well may a little more ;-)). Does someone

FW: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-17 Thread Brett Rizk
-Original Message- From: Rolf Veen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Alternative to NSI The Windows installer I like most is InnoSetup (www.innosetup.org). It's free, but not MSI based. Rolf.

FW: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-17 Thread Brett Rizk
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jean-frederic clere Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Alternative to NSI Klaus Sonnenleiter wrote: I've worked with both Setup Factory and InstallShield

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-17 Thread Jon Stevens
Why the heck does it matter what installer software that we use? As long as people can easily modify it without having to purchase expensive software and that it does the job well, all that matters is that someone is doing the work to create the installer. I don't care if it is Java based or not

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-17 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
GOMEZ Henri at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A Java installer is what we need, OpenSource one of course. Installing a Java product should not be too related to the platform on which it is installed, installing is just copying the right files at the right place. (well may a little more ;-)).

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-16 Thread Rolf Veen
The Windows installer I like most is InnoSetup (www.innosetup.org). It's free, but not MSI based. Rolf.

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-16 Thread jean-frederic clere
an example copy of it. Thanx in advance, Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Remy Maucherat Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Alternative to NSI Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-16 Thread Pier P. Fumagalli
Remy Maucherat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a tweaked version of the script, but unfortunately my main HD died on me a few moments ago. The tweaks weren't too complex so I should be able to put them back in quickly. What would I do without IMAP (thanks Pier ;-)) and CVS ? (since of

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-15 Thread hiten pandya
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RE: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-15 Thread Rob S.
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Alternative to NSI Quoting Daniel Ritchey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Microsoft has its own installation mechanism built in to Win2000 WinXP and offers a download to add it Win9x. Its the same thing that the binary release of Apache for windows

Re: Alternative to NSI

2001-07-14 Thread Remy Maucherat
Quoting Daniel Ritchey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Microsoft has its own installation mechanism built in to Win2000 WinXP and offers a download to add it Win9x. Its the same thing that the binary release of Apache for windows is packaged in. Just thought I would throw that out there, I don't