Re: [Opencd-devel] Installer Program Ideas

[Imran G. <im...@bi...>]

On 2 May 2002, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 18:30, Alex Roston wrote:
> > J Aaron Farr wrote:
> > 
> > > On the other hand, many of the applications under consideration have excellent
> > > installers already developed.  Do we really want to throw these out and start
> > > from scratch?  Mozilla and OpenOffice have very nice installers for example.
> > > Should our installer then simply call these installers, or should we have one
> > > unified installer?
> > 
> > Call the already written installers. Anything else is too much work, and
> > also assumes that we know more about the application and how it should
> > be installed than the people who wrote it.
> 
> Totally agreed.  Can anyone do a simple proof-of-concept HTML installer?
> It only needs to say hello, and let the user click on an image to launch
> an installer.  Then I can put this as a zip file on org.site for
> everyone to download and test.  If it works with all browsers and all
> settings, then that might be the way to go.  I would certainly be the
> easiest. 

It should be doable as some UK magazines(notably PC Plus) used to have
HTML installer pages like we're proposing.

Imran
-- 
http://bits.bris.ac.uk