Re: [Opencd-devel] regarding installation method

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

--- Alex Roston <tun...@pa...> wrote:
> Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This makes more sense to me. As I recall, most good programming
> languages have the ability to call and run another program. We'll
> certainly have the ability to use or make a temp directory on the C
> drive for any interpreters we use (if we use them.) 
> 
> > | 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 ...
> 
> Yeah, that gives Microsoft a lot of power. Imagine the next update to
> IE...
>  
> > | 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?
> 
> We could certainly put it in C:\temp.
> 
> > | 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.
> 
> Yeah, now we've got to install a web server first... That sounds a
> little clunky. As to getting the drive letter of the CD, Windows should
> have that in memory somewhere - if "MY COMPUTER" can find it, we should
> be able to as well.
>  
> IMHO, if we decide to include compilers/interpreters on the CD, we
> should write the install program in one of the languages we install and
> include the source. We should be able to find (or wrap) everything we're
> going to install in a self extracting .exe file, which usually invokes
> the installer.
> 
> After the endures had picked the programs they wanted to install, our
> installer would do something like this:
> 
> 
> QUERIES WINDOWS FOR CD DRIVE LETTER AND PUTS IT IN VARIABLE
> $Drive_letter
> 
> 	# The installer learns that the CD drive is "F" on this machine
> 
> 	# The installer goes through a list of variables:
> 
> IF $Mozilla="yes" THEN CALL $Drive_letter:\Mozilla\Mozilla.exe
> 	# Mozilla.exe runs, extracts the archive, and installs Mozilla
> 
> IF $XBasic="yes" THEN CALL $Drive_letter:\Xbasic\Xbasic.exe
> 	#In this case $XBasic="no" so the installer goes onto the next thing.
> 
> Unfortunately the only language I'm competent to code such a thing in is
> and old BASIC language called ASIC... Oh the joys of being ten years
> behind.
> 
> Alex
> 
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