Hello, I have read the archives about this issue, but didn't found an answer to my specific needs. Perhaps somebody can give me some advice. What I want to do is to distribute my app on DVD-ROM for Mac and Win. It is heavily based on Videos (7.5GB), that's why the medium is not a CD-ROM, but a double layer DVD-9. My app should be runable direct from DVD-ROM (on Win with autostart), that's why I can't have any packaged/zipped content on the DV-ROM. So far no problem. Now I want to supply the user that he can also install / copy the whole app on HD to be independent of the DVD-ROM. Here I have some open questions.
On Mac: - The easiest way would be to tell the user, that he just can copy the whole DVD-ROM into any folder on HD and that's it. I think to provide a "copyAll-setup" wouldn't bring much more comfort - Are there any issues, not to do this, or what the user would expect coming along with a HD install (like a desktop alias on Win)? On Win: - All installers I have seen so far want to compress/zip the content of my app on the medium and do an unzip while installing. Because all my files have to be runable from DVD, they can't be compressed and I can't use any installer (like innosetup or installgadget or stuffit) Do you know any installer, which just can copy the files without having them packaged before? So my thought was to create my own setup with rev, which just copies all the content of my DVD to HD, I don't need any drivers, registry settings or things like that, just a full copy. - If I would offer the user to install into the standard C:\program files, how will Vista give me the privilege of admin rights to copy to that destination? I have read sometime before, that Vista just recognizes a setup from the name "setup.exe". Is this true and sufficient? How to prevent from being virtualized? - How can I create an alias on the desktop and startmenu to my app with rev? Is it possible at all? - How to create an uninstall? After having deleted all my files in C:\programm files\ (what thinks Vista about that?), how do I delete "myself" (the uninstall.exe) Never done such a thing before. - Are there any other issues, I haven't thought about yet and I should tell the win user also, just to copy the DVD wherever he wants to and has to care about it for himself? Thanks for your experience and recommendations Tiemo _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
