Re: [Opencd-devel] regarding installation method

[Buchan M. <bg...@ca...>]

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Brendon Crawford wrote:
| 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.
|

Seems like too much work for too little gain, IMHO. It might be possible
to select the apps, and have the autorun app launch each of the
installers in sequence.

| 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.
|

Well, one could generate a cert, and add the cert to the profile used to
~ run mozilla (on the CD), and sign the app with the cert? This assumes
running Mozilla/gecko from the CD (where we have control of the cert
store). Can gecko run with a read-only profile? Can mozilla run with a
read-only profile.

| 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.
|

Running IE from the CD or the target machine? I don't think relying on
the IE installed is a good idea .... Plus using proprietary software to
deliver the installer doesn't seem to kosher ...

| 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.
|

Can the JRE be run from a CD? Or would it need to be installed first?

| 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.

Is it feasible to have the perl modules or php classes this thing would
depend on accessible in a consistent place? If so, I think php-gtk might
be a viable option.

|
| 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.
|

I don't know how you are going to configure your web server on the fly
to take into account different drive letters.


6)Is there anything wrong with wxWindows? The advantage is that it would
not depend on anything (AFAIK), as it translates everything to MSCVRT or
somesuch (might need one wrapper dll, not sure). Plus there are versions
for gtk, motif/lesstif,Mac OS X, maybe more ...

Buchan

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