Re: [Opencd-devel] regarding installation method

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

--- Alex Roston <tun...@pa...> wrote:
> J Aaron Farr wrote:
>  
> > And one last word about a unified installer.  While having one single
> installer
> > is nice, it has several draw backs.  First, we're duplicating effort. 
> Also,
> > the installer will have to be regularly updated for each new release of the
> > software we provide on the CD.
> 
> Absolutely agreed. "Call /Mozilla/setup.exe" is definitely the way to
> go.
> 
> > An HTML based installer would be much simplier.
> 
> I'm still a little worried about that. Can someone send me a proof of
> concept?
> 
> > Finally, I feel that
> > by providing an HTML front end we can easily provide links to documentation
> and
> > resources found on the CD, plus links to our websites and other projects.
> > Localization will also be easier and creating an single unified look and
> feel
> > for both installer and website can be easily done by using the same
> > stylesheets.
> 
> While I'm a little leery of the HTML based install, I agree with the
> idea of providing links to the documentation and other resources. What
> if our Mozilla were shipped with its default "Home" being an "OSS CD
> Homepage" which would be installed on the disk. That homepage would have
> links to the documentation and web resources.
> 
> Alex


Perhaps I should clarify by what I mean as an HTML based installer.  There's a
difference between and HTML based installer and and HTTP based installer.  The
idea I am referring to is that when the CD is places in the computer's CD-ROM
drive, either the system's default browser or some lightweight browser that can
run off the CD starts (someone mentioned K-Meleon and if we can get that to
work, I think it's a great idea).  The browser would load some HTML page that
is locally found on the CD.  This HTML page would be the front end to the
installer.  I imagine there would be quite a few pages on the CD-ROM.  From
this loaded page, the user would be able to start any of the installers located
on the CD-ROM.  Nothing would be installed via the internet, everything would
load directly from the CD-ROM.  However, there could very well be links from
these CD-ROM hosted HTML pages to the project website(s) and to other relative
open source sites.  So in other words, all our autorun.exe file would need to
do is run some browser (system specified or local to the CD) and load our
"start.html" or "index.html" (or whatever) page that is on the CD-ROM.

At least that's what I've meant by an HTML based installer.

jaaron

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