setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

[Max Bowsher]

James Renton wrote:
> What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/?

There are very many installer builders for windows, but none that I have 
seen manage many independently updated packages with interdependencies, in 
the way that our current setup does.


Max.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:39 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple
> elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
>
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
>> I for one appreciate the clarification as I sent a detailed bug-report
>> to this person assuming they were the maintainer.  My question as I've
>> asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility
>> of setup.exe for those of us who have to use windows via a screenreader
>
>> and keyboard.  Many of the buttons and controlls do not get focus and
>> can't be opperated in the normal manner.
>
> Did you happen to follow the "setup.exe sucks" thread over in
> cygwin-apps?  Basically, it boils down to the fact that I and others are
> not really thrilled with setup.exe in its current form.  While it is an
> impressive program in some ways, the UI is (apparently) too
> non-intuitive and the mean-time between bug fixes is too long.
>
> Are you aware of a setup-like program out there which "gets it right" as
> far as UI is concerned?  It would be nice to transition to an
> open-sources alternative which was actively supported.
>
> cgf
>
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