Re: E 0.9.3 release?

On Jan 2, 2011, at 20:05, Mark S. Miller wrote:

>> Back when I was thinking about installation design, the conclusion I
>> had reached was that we should switch to, instead of having install
>> scripts, generating a .msi installer package, which would contain the
>> registry fiddling itself.
>>
>
> After a bit of Googling, I could neither find any simple  
> explanations of the
> .msi format nor any attractive open source programs for generating  
> these,
> except for <http://msi2xml.sourceforge.net/>. Do you have any simpler
> solution in mind?


That may have been the solution I had in mind; certainly in the  
example I vaguely recall there was an XML file defining the MSI.  
Realize that I have no experience with the design of Windows  
installers, and this was third-party suggestions.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>