Re: [NAnt-users] Windows Installer for NAnt

[Ryan B. <rm...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Dominik Guder <os...@gu...> wrote:
> Hi Timotheus,
>
> thanks for your suggestion. IMHO there is no other installer right now.
> We started thinking of creating one since the download/unblock issue
> drove us nuts.
Boy does it. :)
>
> In office we created a separate svn repository just for dev tools like
> nant and wix. So the users just do an update an she is done. This only
> requires to add nant\bin path to %PATH% once for each machine.
>
> Wix/MSI has some benefits when it comes to multiple deployments in
> larger teams. It might be deployed by group policies. But it is rather
> complex.
> Innosetup is IMHO the easiest installer tool. I only saw some nsis files
> (more complex than innosetup) and I did all of our .net setups with WiX.
Yeah, I use to use nsis for projects at work but those were
complicated to create, let alone maintain.  I switched to WiX which is
simpler compared to nsis, plus it integrates well with Visual Studio.
I never looked into innosetup, which is what prompted my original
question.

I wouldn't mind investigating further once the SF CVS to github
migration is complete.  Of course there are other higher priorities
before checking this out.

Thanks,
Ryan
>
> Besides this I would add nant.exe to path than creating a nant.bat file
> in %WINDIR%. Which requires admin rights.
>
> So far
> Dominik
>
> Am 11.11.2011 18:51, schrieb Timotheus Pokorra:
>> Hello Ryan,
>>
>>>> The script file for InnoSetup looks like this:
>>> This is interesting.  Just out of curiosity, what are the advantages
>>> of using this compared to using another type of installer, such as
>>> WiX?
>>
>> I have not used WiX before.
>> I sometimes work with NSIS from Nullsoft, which has the advantage of
>> being able to build Windows Installers even on Debian.
>> But NSIS scripts are a little bit more difficult to write, and I like
>> the easy scripting of Inno Setup, which allows eg. to write the
>> nant.bat easily.
>>
>> I am not saying that Inno Setup is the best ;)
>> It is just what I am used too, and I have not seen any other windows
>> installer for NAnt yet, or did I miss something?
>>
>> Have a good weekend,
>>    Timotheus
>>
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