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Re: [stellation-res] Windows distribution file
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> I have been thinking about the best format for the Windows distribution
> file for Stellation. Basically there are three options:
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> 1. Produce a Windows installer file.
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> 2. Produce a .zip file.
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> 3. Produce a self-extracting zip file.
Actually, there's one other major option, which would be my preference.
There are a variety of Java-based software installers. Doing a quick
search on freshmeat.net, I found 5 different java-based installers,
and there's at least one on alphaworks.
In each of these cases, it's possible to set up automated installers
that assume nothing more than that Java is installed on the machine.
Once Java is installed, they all provide double-clickable installers
on windows.
Plus, we can use the same package to write an installer for the
Unix variants, and a lot of the work of setting it up for one platform can
be ported to the other.
-Mark
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*** Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*** IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
*** The Stellation project:
http://domino.research.ibm.com/synedra/synedra.nsf
