Innosetup is a very good installer.<br><br>But how will this apply to the context of KDE?<br><br>Shouldn't it be less dependent on the mechanisms of Windows?<br><br>Imagine the restrictions for running a installer on Vista machines where UAC is enabled or under XP/2000 with no administrative permissions.<br>
<br>The main advantage of the KDE project for windows (on my humble opinion) is the independence from the restrictions imposed by windows and let users decide what to do next.<br><br>Would be good to see KDE as self contained as possible and handle their own installs without resorting to Add/Remove program tab from the windows control panel.<br>
<br>:)<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/28, <a href="mailto:kde-windows-request@kde.org">kde-windows-request@kde.org</a> <<a href="mailto:kde-windows-request@kde.org">kde-windows-request@kde.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"<br> <br> Hi,<br> <br> Christian informed me that the amarok team asked for the possibility for<br> an application specific installer. Because in the future there may<br>
additional projects like koffice which may like to use such a<br> specialized installer i like to give some hints about this topic:<br> <br> 1.There is always the way to build application specific setups using<br> nsis or inno setup. The advantage is that the application<br>
maintainer/packager has full control about what is in the package and<br> what not. The disadvantage is that the application maintainer/package is<br> on his own on building every required package. Packagers could reduces<br>
this expense by using the already available packages from the kde<br> mirrors, but then they are bound on the package release cycle<br> <br> 2. The qt based installer was extended to be able to handle application<br> specific themes containing different icons/images/pages like shown in<br>
the appended screenshot for a possible amarok installer. Technical it<br> would use the public available binary packages. For specialized<br> installers patches are welcome.<br> <br> Any comments ?<br> <br> Ralf<br> <br>
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