[Opencd-devel] HTML Installer

[J A. F. <jaa...@ya...>]

Hello all.

A few have mentioned the idea of using HTML as a front end for the installer. 
I think this is a great idea and could simplify development.  We would also be
able to directly use the installers built by other projects (ie - Open Office,
Mozilla).  Additionally, links to our website(s), additional documentation,
etc., could easily be accessed from a HTML front-end.  All we would need to to
write the appropriate "autorun.inf" and "autorun.exe" file that would call the
system web browser and open our "Index.html" or similiar file.  I've seen this
done, but I'm personally not familiar with it.  Also, in terms of look and
feel, it would be easy to maintain a similiar look and feel to the installer
and our websites by just using the same set of stylesheets.

Any other thoughts on this idea?

I'm also interested in looking into Cygwin's installer.  XEmacs uses it for
their Win32 installer, so maybe that's another solution.

jaaron

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