[Opencd-devel] regarding installation method

[Brendon C. <end...@ya...>]

I think we should have ONE installation program which
encompasses all the programs. This will allow you to
decide which programs you want to install. Then within
each program section you can decide which features to
install.

1)Regarding HTML based installation, Mozilla as far as
i know, does not have capabilities of allowing any
kind of file operations, without a signed script. I
have never actually done this with mozilla, but im
sure there is a way.

2) Internet Explorer allows for ActiveX Scripting
(security alert!!), of which can easily be used to
create a nice interface with an easy to use installer.
However, this is deopendent on a proproetary system in
a way.

3) We could create a JAVA/swing based installation.
This could be very convenienet seeing that it would be
cross platform. This idea is my personal favorite,
seing that it would be the most flexible.

4) We could do a perl-GTK, or php-GTK based
installations, of which would not be as elegant as the
JAVA installation but it would get the job done.

5) We could do a HTML based installation, of which
will then send the information to a backend PHP or
PERL installer via a miniture portable local web server.

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