kde installer in kdewin32 svn

[Peter Kümmel]

Peter Kümmel wrote:
> mark cox wrote:
>> I'm not sure why you are re-inventing the wheel. inno setup is mature
>> installation software with many features and you can extend it to add those
>> missing features. In my experience, installers on windows always turn
>> out to
>> be much more complicated than anticipated and because inno setup is mature
>> it has already encountered and solved those problems.
>> website: www.innosetup.com
>>
>> mark
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/07, Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> there is an updated spec of the installer available on
>>>
>>> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/kdewin32/installer/doc/readme.txt?rev=620682&view=auto
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions too or sombody want's to help coding  beside Christian
>>> Ehrlicher, who had contributed already some patches ?
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
> 
> I use inno setup here:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29557&package_id=57553&release_id=425927
> (the .exe). It has a pascal like syntax, and when
> you wanna distribute all files within a directory and wanna call
> some .bat files it is very convenient.
> It has a build-in 7zip compression.
> 
> Wouldn't it be the simplest to just ship all files in one package.
> When someone doesn't want some specific libraries he should
> do it like a expert and use svn checkouts.

We are on Windows and we love it to install hundreds of megabytes ;)

> Peter
>