[SIP-devel] SIP binary installer for windows has been uploaded

[Zhang C. <ch...@ma...>]

Hi, everyone!

    After over one week's hard learning on Inno Seup(a free and 
opensource installer authoring tool), I'm so excited to say SIP binary 
installer for windows has just been built! You can download it on our 
CVS server.

    I have been working on it nearly 10 hours today, and so lucky am I 
that I finished it in the end. The main features of the installer include:

    1. Detect Scilab's installation path and version automatically, 
prompt users to upgrade their Scilab if its version is lower than 3.1.
    2. SIPToolbox will be installed in contrib folder of Scilab 
automatically.
    3. Detect ImageMagick's path and version automatically, prompt users 
to upgrade ImageMagick if its version is lower than 6.2.3
    4. ImageMagick's path will be written in loader_imagemagick.sce, so 
when load SIPToolbox in Scilab, the ImageMagick's dlls can be load first 
from their own folder. That means SIP's dlls needn't be bundled with 
ImageMagick's dlls. The installer's size is reduced less than half of 
the zip file.(I spent whole day on this feature:-))

    Two reasons I think make the setup still in alpha phase: the 
documentation is incomplete and the installer hasn't been tested fully. 
Please, if you have time, try to install it on your computer and send 
your feedbacks to me. I'm so eager to hear your voice:-)

Have fun!

Zhang Cheng
Xian Jiaotong University, China