Re: [Mingw-users] Program Distribution - Installers (win32/unix)

[Dameon W. <d.w...@ab...>]

On Wednesday, 21 May 2003 at 11:29,
Earnie Boyd scribbled in "Re: [Mingw-users] Program Distribution - Installe":
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> 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.