Integrated self-extracting installers

[Jono Bacon]

Hello all,

I hope this email is of some use to you guys, and hopefully generates a bit 
of discussion.

Recently I have been working on the KDE Usability Study; a system to identify 
defects in the KDE user interface, and one area through my initial research 
that is a problem is installation of software.

I have been taking a look around at the various soloutions currently 
available and they are all incomplete. This let me onto an idea.

KDevelop is leading the way in IDE development at the moment it seems, and 
offers an integrated environment. I was thinking that to truly top KDevelop 
off would be an integrated self extracting installation facility.

This my idea:

A developer could fire up KDevelop, use the app wizard to create a template 
app, build his or her application, and then when it is ready for a release, 
they select something such as Package from a menu and the self extracting 
installation program is included with the application. The self extractor 
would operate in a similar fashion to InstallShield; ie a graphical wizard to 
install the software, compiling if neccecery.

Any ideas or comments?

	Jono

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Jono Bacon - [vmlinuz] - jono at kde.org
KDE/Qt Developer


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