On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Bo Thorsen <bo@askmonty.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have been looking at getting our binary windows distribution back on track. One of the options would be to create the zip file like we did earlier.
Another way would be to create a proper windows installer. For this, there are several options: NSIS, WIX, etc. I spent a bit of time investigating the CPack parts of CMake. And during the investigation, I managed to pretty much write an entire installer. It was quite easy.
As said by others, we want both Zip file and installer. Zip file should be easy (what was done in the beta releases was just to manually build and zip) so this is the first task to complete in your plan.
The question is what direction to continue in. I'd appreciate some feedback on this, because I'm not certain if it's the right way to go. It has been pretty easy so far, so I'm pretty happy to continue with it.
IMHO, the most important thing not implemented in this installer yet is to set up MariaDB as a service.
Regarding updates, this is not planned for the first iteration: http://askmonty.org/worklog/Server-RawIdeaBin/?tid=55 henrik -- email: henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi tel: +358-40-5697354 www: www.avoinelama.fi/~hingo book: www.openlife.cc