Pavol Rusnak wrote:
On 12/22/2009 10:50 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Inno Setup is a really nice Windows package creator that is free to use,
I like NSIS more - http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
I agree. You do pretty much need to copy one of the examples or templates that are up on the nsis wiki to get started, but it's great to go from there and build up your installer piece at a time. And although I don't think it's exactly easy to write a new installer script from scratch, I think it IS very easy to read and understand one that is already written. So, as you go about adding complexity to your script, it doesn't really become unmaintainable. I have gone through several installer systems, from simple winrar sfx with an autoexecuted install.bat, to really quite good commercial things like DeployMaster (it's pretty simple and easy to use right from the satrt, and does provide for lots of common and odd possible needs), but I like nsis the best. I can supply a nice example script if you want a starting point that's in between the too-simple and more complex ones on the nsis wiki. But you should probably just start with the too-simple examples, and then add the missing bits that make the final installer better piece at a time, that way you end up understanding it all better. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org