Does anyone know of a cross-platform installer package? Scanning
Google, it appears that the installer package landscape is all focused
on specific operating systems.

You can try BitRock's InstallBuilder
http://www.bitrock.com/download_ins...r_download.html

Regards,

Araceli Pulido

slippymississippi@yahoo.com wrote:

On 2006-09-01 07:57:06 -0700, slippymississippi@yahoo.com said:


I'm not sure what this has to do with Extreme Programming.

That said, different operating systems have very different requirements
for software installation. The idea of a "cross-platform installer
package" doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense. Use the native
installation mechanism on each of your supported platforms, and your
users will get the best experience on their preferred platform.

For example, on Windows this would mean leveraging the Windows
installer infrastructure, and on Mac OS X this would involve either
supporting a drag-install from a disk image or a double-clickable
Installer.app package, while on Red Hat Linux this would be an RPM and
on Debian Linux it would be a Debian package. And so on.

You're not going to find a single generic mechanism that covers all of
these cases and does the right thing by the users of the respective
platforms for every one.

-- Chris

Chris Hanson wrote:

Not a darn thing.


That's a slight overstatement, but any cross-platform installer
needs to either target a least-common-denominator approach that
doesn't connect to any really OS-specific features, of allow the
use of platform-specific modules.

There aren't many, but there are a few. I haven't worked with
any, however.

slippymississippi@yahoo.com wrote:


VisualWorks' installer targets MacOS 9, MacOS X, Windows and about 9
unixes (including Linux). Dunno if its enough...

see www.cincomsmalltalk.com

We use it to install VisualWorks itself, so its more of a usable
framework than a full product.

HTH

--
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Eliot Miranda Smalltalk - Scene not herd

Chris Hanson wrote:

I think you're right ... with the heavy bandwidth this newsgroup
incurs, it's awfully presumptuous to post a tools-related message.


I found an open source tool called "Install Jammer" that shows
tremendous promise. However, it appears to be a little buggy. As you
said, base installs conform to the lowest common denominator. However,
the base installation can be extended with Tcl.