Kde-windows Digest, Vol 30, Issue 29

[Nuno Brito]

Innosetup is a very good installer.

But how will this apply to the context of KDE?

Shouldn't it be less dependent on the mechanisms of Windows?

Imagine the restrictions for running a installer on Vista machines where UAC
is enabled or under XP/2000 with no administrative permissions.

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.

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.

:)


2008/3/28, kde-windows-request at kde.org <kde-windows-request at kde.org>:
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> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:47:59 +0100
> From: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de>
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> Hi,
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Any comments ?
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> Ralf
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Nuno Brito
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