Hi, I"m trying to implement wpkg as software
deployment, but I think the big problem is creating
the msi packages.
You don't need to create MSI packages to use WPKG.
All you need to have is a way of silent installing a package.
I have installed wininstall le but as I undestood it
take a snapshot before and after of the package
installation, then it could give me some problems when
I have to make adobe reader package because it was
installed before.
Yeah, it's best to use such tools on a clean system (take a snapshot of
a clean system, install software, and then tak another snapshot, which
would make a comparison and create a package).
Other thing is, it's not a good way of creating silent installers.
BTW, there is a silent installer for Adobe Reader (or you didn't mean
Acrobat?) in the wiki - http://wpkg.org/wiki
As linux fun Im pretty a newbie on windows platform so
I have found a lot"s of difficult to create msi pack.
My questions are:
_ is not much more easy to install and uninstall the
package by autoit3 scripts ?
well, autoit pretty depends on the environment, the scripts may differ
if a different screen resolution is used etc.
Autoit is not a good way of packaging, either.
See more info here: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.php#fail
_ and autoit scripts are supported by wpkg ?
Yes and no.
If you run an installer, that is "visible", it could be used with WPKG.
But I discourage using it (it may be interrupted by the user, it may
fail if the configuration is different etc.).
Try to invest some time and find how to install the software silently.
_ is there any kind of doc or soft clear, safe and
easy to make those kind of package translation (exe
setup ==> msi) ?
Probably there should be such documentation with the software you use
(Wininstall etc.)?
uhmm ..an other question.. I"d like to traslate wpkg
and wpkg-gui into italian, is that possible ? what are
the files to translate ?
Hmm, would be nice, but currently there is no way of doing that (well,
if you translate some sentences in wpkg.js into Italian, surely it would
be then Italian :) - but currently there is no "infrastructure" which
would ease making such translations.
It would be best if they could be in separate files, etc. - but it's not
yet supported.
So perhaps, one year from now, when such infrastructure exists, I'll
remind you that once you wanted to translate WPKG :)
Same goes for the web gui, which sucks, supports only a tiny amount of
WPKG features, and sucks once again :)
Anyone who knows PHP and would like to help with the web GUI? :)
--
Tomek
http://wpkg.org
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