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From: Dameon W. <d.w...@ab...> - 2003-05-22 21:18:45
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On Wednesday, 21 May 2003 at 11:29, Earnie Boyd scribbled in "Re: [Mingw-users] Program Distribution - Installe": <snip> > Not necessary, but highly recommended. However, if I found an > installer that worked well on both Win32 and a Linux flavor, I > wouldn't be opposed to using a different installer than what is > considered standard for that system. Have you come across something called Makeself? I've only see it mentioned a couple of times, but it seems to be a system that creates a shell archive of some sort (maybe tar.gz I'm not sure) that is encapsulated win a shell script (with a .run extension). You run the script (with options if you want), and it extracts the archive portion, checks it's validity using both cksum and md5sum, and then runs a setup script that has been extracted. Basically it seems to act like a windows setup.exe, but is shell based. Apart from cksum it seems to work OK from within MSYS too, which is quite cool. I don't have any links to a site, but recent examples include the latest NVidia geforce drivers for linux and the latest quake3 patches for linux. Might be worth a look Cheers. Dameon. |