specialized installers

[Ralf Habacker]

Hi,

Christian informed me that the amarok team asked for the possibility for 
an application specific installer. Because in the future there may 
additional projects like koffice which may like to use such a 
specialized  installer i like to give some hints about this topic:

1.There is always the way to build application specific setups using 
nsis or inno setup. The advantage is that the application 
maintainer/packager has full control about what is in the package and 
what not. The disadvantage is that the application maintainer/package is 
on his own on building every required package. Packagers could reduces 
this expense by using the already available packages from the kde 
mirrors, but then they are bound on the package release cycle

2. The qt based installer was extended to be able to handle application 
specific themes containing different icons/images/pages like shown in 
the appended screenshot for a possible amarok installer. Technical it 
would use the public available binary packages. For specialized 
installers patches are welcome.

Any comments ?

Ralf


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