Distributing (third party) KDE apps as a bundle

[Laurent Espitallier]

Le 04/06/2010 15:29, Thomas Friedrichsmeier a écrit :
> speaking only for RKWard, here, I'd say many thanks for the offer, but I
> think we don't have much use for this, ATM. We are quite happy with our
> installation procedure, now, and adding another layer around this only
> for adding a shortcuts, automatically, seems like overkill to me.
>
> One thing that I could imagine to be useful in general would be an NSIS
> template that
> 1) autodetects / asks for an existing KDE installation to install an app to
> 2) checks certain parameters of that installation (minimum version,
> compiler flavor, possibly presence of specific apps / libraries), and
> 3) offers to create a new KDE installation (or update an existing one),
> fully automatically, if no suitable installation exists.
>
> However, judging from my experience with NSIS, this is not going to be
> too easy. And I think there may be much easier ways to cover the most
> common use case(s). So what are the most common deployment scenarios?
>
> 1) A KDE enthusiast wants to "have KDE" on windows, that is all
> available applications, or at least a sizeable bunch of KDE apps.
> 2a) A "regular" user wants to install one particular application on
> windows. That application happens to be based on KDE.
> 2b) The same user wants to install one or more further KDE applications,
> later.
>
> I would guess that 2b is least common, followed by 1, and 2a is the most
> common scenario today. Possibly I'm underestimating the importance of 1,
> but also, that is already covered by the kdewin-installer, nicely. So,
> is there any way to make 2a easier?
>
> Well, if a basic KDE installation (say kdebase-apps, kdepimlibs, and
> dependencies; that should cover most applications needs) would be
> available, centrally, as a single-download binary bundle it would be a
> lot easier for us (RKWard) and others to simply distribute their KDE
> based apps as an easy to use installation bundle. Of course this does
> not make too much sense unless and until other projects / people are
> actually interested in using this. So - would this sound interesting to
> anybody else?
>
> Regards
> Thomas
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>    

No problem, I understand.

I think I would have done things like that to begin with. Unfortunately 
checking for dll version / dependencies is really more difficult. I only 
know that "QtCore4.dll" file has the version information stored but no 
KDE-baseworkspace dll.

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# This script requires : "Inetc" plugin, "ProcFunc.nsh" include

!define APP_NAME "Test"
!define APP_VERSION "0.0.0.0"
!define KDE_SETTINGSPATH "$APPDATA\.kde"
!define KDE_PROCESSTOCHECK "kded4.exe"
!define KDE_SETUPURL 
"http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe"
!define KDEINSTALLER_INI "\etc\installer.ini"
!define KDEINSTALLER_INI2 "$APPDATA\KDE\installer.ini"
!define WIN_VERSION "win32"

!include "ProcFunc.nsh"
!include "FileFunc.nsh"
!include "StrFunc.nsh"
${StrRep}

Name "${APP_NAME} ${APP_VERSION}"
OutFile "${APP_NAME}_${APP_VERSION}.exe"
XPStyle on
;RequestExecutionLevel admin

Var compilertype
Var kdeversion

Page directory
Page instfiles

!macro ABORTSETUP ABORTMSG

         MessageBox MB_OK "${ABORTMSG}"
         Abort

!macroend

Section "Prerequisites and dependencies"

         IfFileExists "$INSTDIR${KDEINSTALLER_INI}" +2 0
         !insertmacro ABORTSETUP "Error, can't find 
$INSTDIR${KDEINSTALLER_INI}"

         ; DEPENDENCIES ...
         ReadIniStr $compilertype "$INSTDIR${KDEINSTALLER_INI}" 
"General" "compilerType"

SectionEnd

Section "Install Files"

         SetOutPath $INSTDIR
         File "example.file"

SectionEnd

Function .onInit

         InitPluginsDir

         checkrootpath:

         ;Check if kde settings folder already exists (maybe not very 
useful :-))
         IfFileExists "${KDE_SETTINGSPATH}" 0 download_yesno

         ;Check path with a process in memory
         ${GetProcessPath} "${KDE_PROCESSTOCHECK}" $0
         StrCmp $0 0 next 0
         ${GetParent} $0 $0
         ${GetParent} $0 $0
         StrCpy $INSTDIR $0
         Goto rootfound

         ;Check path in installer.ini file
         next:
         ReadIniStr $0 ${KDEINSTALLER_INI2} "General" "rootdir"
         StrCmp $0 0 download_yesno 0
         StrCpy $INSTDIR $0

         Goto rootfound

         download_yesno:
         MessageBox MB_OKCANCEL "'KDE SC on Windows' root path not 
found. Download and install latest installer GUI ?" IDCANCEL cancel
         inetc::get "${KDE_SETUPURL}" "$PLUGINSDIR\kde-installer-temp.exe"
         ExecWait "$PLUGINSDIR\kde-installer-temp.exe"
         Goto checkrootpath

         cancel:
         MessageBox MB_OK "You'll need to browse for 'KDE SC on Windows' 
root path"

         rootfound:

         ${StrRep} $INSTDIR $INSTDIR "\\" "\"

FunctionEnd