sorry for the typo, the first line should be:
CURRENT_SHOES_INSTALL_DIR = "#{ENV['COMMONPROGRAMFILES']}\\Shoes"
but I suppose you guessed it :)
Lionel
2008/12/5 Lionel ORRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if NSIS is the best choice for Shoes installation on
> Windows platforms. I am afraid it leads to some inconsistencies when
> uninstalling particularly. Why not use MSI directly ?
>
> WiX (http://wix.sourceforge.net) is an open-source framework to create
> msi packages. It's based on xml source files, and it's very nice to
> use. To let you have a look at this solution, here are some steps to
> get you started :
>
> 1. Download and extract
> http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4721.0/wix3-binaries.zip in a
> specific directory (in my case, C:\wix)
> 2. Adapt the 2 first lines of the attached ruby script then launch it.
>
> I know this script is plenty of crap.It's just a way to get you
> started faster and show you what's important to change in the
> autogenerated .wxs and what command-lines must be executed, not
> something really usable.
>
> The msi package itself is VERY primitive for now, i.e. there are no
> menu shortcuts, file associations etc. But all that is very easy to
> add.
>
> Enjoy, and please... comment. If you like WiX, msi is a good standard
> and makes app tracking/uninstallation/repair/patches easy. (Yes,
> patches, you've read well. So fast updates, and so on...)
>
> regards,
> Lionel
>
