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Re: Can't configure setup.exe from CVS (and a plea for setup.exe alternative)
Christopher Faylor writes:
> Anyone know of a suitable, free setup-like utility that could be
> pressed into service for use with cygwin?
NSIS has already been mentioned.
The other open-source utility I know of is Inno Setup
(http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php).
But if you really want to do yourself and your users a favor, you will
find some way to produce .msi packages (see
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html#msi). MSI is
Microsoft's standard, and it provides several nice things
automatically, such as "Add/Remove Programs", unattended installation,
integration with SuS, and so on.
MSI also has a model for "components" which you might be able to
leverage.
The only problem is that the free tools for producing MSI packages are
fairly nascent. See, for instance, <http://izfree.sourceforge.net/>
and <http://msi2xml.sourceforge.net/>.
- Pat
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