RE: *.msi builders
"Simon Marlow" <[email protected]>
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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