Re: [GnomeSword-developers] win32 installer

[Martin Z. <mat...@se...>]

Matthew Talbert píše v Čt 18. 12. 2008 v 22:51 +0100:
> Most of this will be directed towards Martin, but maybe some of the
> rest of you have opinions as well.
> 
> 1. Is it easy to create an installer that just "updates" rather than
> re-install everything? Perhaps it is still necessary at the moment to
> test the complete installation, I don't know.

I don't know. This is my second installer using nsis.
NSIS should support updating over internet. Only I don't knoh how it
thould work. 
When in the future will be the need for updating.

> 
> 2. For images to resize, we need to have imagemagick installed.
> Because this is an optional step, what is the best way to approach
> this? Can nsis go download the imagemagick installer and run that?
> (the installer could be confusing to some users, especially the fact
> that it is vitally important to have "update executable search paths"
> checked, and there doesn't appear to be a way to give the installer
> arguments to run silently). We could package up imagemagick ourselves
> and either install it in the GnomeSword bin directory, or in its own
> location.

What is the current state of imagemagick?
Will the binariess of imagemagick be included in the installer?

> 
> 3. How are we going to set the language for the users? If we set the
> LANG environment variable, that will work for GS but will also affect
> any other gtk programs on the computer (inkscape, gimp, gnucash, etc).
> Is that acceptable? Or should we set another variable, such as
> GS_LANG, then GS can set LANG or LC_ALL just for itself based on that
> variable?

It seems to me that it isn't acceptable when one GTK app should
influence the others.

> 
> 4. Where, in the end, are we going to distribute this from? Does
> sourceforge have a problem with us providing 30MB downloads?

I think sf.net doesn't have a problem with providing 30MB for downloads.

In the File Release System (FRS) documentation there is written that
space for file releases isn't limited.

sf.net FRS doc:

http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/File+Release+System+-+Offering
+Files+for+Download