Tiemo,
Speaking from experience, while you can certainly create your own
installer using Rev, it ends up being a fair amount of work. You could
save a lot of time using another installer tool.
Most installers (InnoSetup for one, and it's totally free) will allow
you to keep your files external to the installer. In other words, you
can opt not to compress the files, and have the installer do a simple
copy action instead. Simply use the "external" flag. That way, your
app could still run straight from the DVD, but you'd also have an easy
interface for allowing the user to copy files to HD. If you're not
familiar with InnoSetup, I recommend using ISTool, a third-party
interface that provides a lot of extra functionality that you would
otherwise have to script yourself.
HTH,
Chris Sheffield
On Nov 14, 2008, at 1:54 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
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
use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
subscription preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
--
Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally, Inc.
www.readnaturally.com
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
