Re: Releasing WinHugs

Am Freitag, 9. September 2005 23:05 schrieb Neil Mitchell:
> What do you use to make the installer? Do you have any scripts for it
> already? That way I could do it, provided it doesn't rely on any
> commercial tools I don't have.

This is on my wish list for a loooong time: I would *highly* prefer if we had 
an automated way of baking all our Haskell software (GHC, Hugs, Alex, 
Haddock, Happy, ...) into an .msi, using only *freely* availabe tools...

> I did briefly look at writing a wix script
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix) today, which would generate an
> MSI. I'm not sure I'll ever have time to finish it though.

There is another maintained free project on SF for building installers, I'm 
not sure if it's better or worse than the one already mentioned:

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis

I already had a short look at both wix and nsis, but I simply did not manage 
to find enough time and energy to commit something useful for us. Any help 
here would be highly appreciated. (=> hint ;-)

Cheers,
   S.