Even if it's more effort on the packaging side, I'd always vote for the system-native side -- so whatever is "normal" on the target system, that's how Syncany should do it too. I do this in programming as well: instead of going the easy way (e.g. for the Linux tray icon), I rather implement things in a way that they feel like any other program to the user.
So I vote for separate packaging ways... On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:37 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > The question is, what are the projects requirements for packaging. > If we need to have different packages for different linux-es then izpack > only benefits us on windows. > However, if we want to have 1 uniform packaging framework, and not care > about rpm,deb,etc.. then perhaps we can tweak izpack to work on all > platforms. > Bear in mind izpack requires java to be installed. > Also, by making .rpm, .deb it would allow us to include the software in > those repositories. > With that, what do we want ? > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Philipp Heckel <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> As I see it, we only need an installer for Windows, right? Linux will >> have deb/rpm/whatever packages anyway ... >> And to have the 'native' look & feel, which is important if your >> application is written in Java (people still don't like Java!), we >> should use something native on Windows -- Stefan Mai and I had a >> discussion about this [1]. We both liked Inno Setup [2]. >> >> Did you take a look at this? >> >> [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/syncany-team/msg00059.html >> [2] http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php >> >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:57 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Awesome, I'll give it a try. Last time I had the need to do this I >> > used http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/installanywhere.htm >> > Thanks. >> > >> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Mario Franco <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> > I'm also on the lookout for a nice java cross platform packager that >> >> > is >> >> > open >> >> > source, any ideas are appreciated. >> >> >> >> After looking at: >> >> http://java-source.net/open-source/installer-generators >> >> >> >> this looks the best >> >> >> >> http://izpack.org/ >> >> >> >> Mário Franco >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
