RE: *.msi builders

"Simon Marlow" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cvs.fptools
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On 12 March 2005 18:37, Sven Panne wrote:

> It would be a very nice thing if we had nightly builds for WinDoze,
> currently 
> the *.msi building is done by Sigbjorn alone, probably using arcane
> ingredients, and only at release time. I know that at least 2 open
> source installer builders exist on SourceForge, NSIS and WiX:
> 
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/
> 
> Does somebody already have some experience with these? I've read the
> documentation of NSIS, and it looks OK, but OTOH I'm not really an
> installer wizard. 
> 
> Of course Hugs, Alex, Happy, Haddock etc. would profit from having
> this somehow integrated in fptools, too.

Definitely a good idea.  We have Sigbjorn's MSI-building tools, but he's
not keen on publishing them widely at the moment.  If someone were to do
something using WiX or NSIS, that would be great too.

Cheers,
	Simon
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