Alternative to NSI

[Daniel Ritchey <ri...@hotmail.com>]

Microsoft has its own installation mechanism built in to Win2000 & WinXP and 
offers a download to add it Win9x.  Its the same thing that the binary 
release of Apache for windows is packaged in.

Just thought I would throw that out there, I don't know if it has any 
advantages over NSI.

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Re: Alternative to NSI

["Pier P. Fumagalli" <pi...@betaversion.org>]

Remy Maucherat at remy@betaversion.org wrote:
> 
> I had a tweaked version of the script, but unfortunately my main HD died on me
> a few moments ago. The tweaks weren't too complex so I should be able to put
> them back in quickly.
> What would I do without IMAP (thanks Pier ;-)) and CVS ? (since of course I
> never back up anything) :-)

I'm going to put a fee on the few gigs of emails you store on my servers :)

    Pier

RE: Alternative to NSI

["Rob S." <rs...@home.com>]

There's a free~ish version of Wise I think... isn't that what Apache(httpd)
uses?

Either way Remy, I tried the install last nite (NSI) and it worked fine.
Looks pretty cool too =)

- r

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:remy@betaversion.org]
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 1:55 AM
> To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Alternative to NSI
>
>
> Quoting Daniel Ritchey <ri...@hotmail.com>:
>
> > Microsoft has its own installation mechanism built in to Win2000 & WinXP
> > and
> > offers a download to add it Win9x.  Its the same thing that the binary
> > release of Apache for windows is packaged in.
> >
> > Just thought I would throw that out there, I don't know if it has any
> > advantages over NSI.
>
> Ok, but how do you build the MSI ?
> I know InstallShield can generate that, but that costs (lots of) cash ...
>
> There are a few advanced features missing in NSI, but more or
> less gets the job
> done. It is also very simple to use.
>
> I had a tweaked version of the script, but unfortunately my main
> HD died on me
> a few moments ago. The tweaks weren't too complex so I should be
> able to put
> them back in quickly.
> What would I do without IMAP (thanks Pier ;-)) and CVS ? (since
> of course I
> never back up anything) :-)
>
> Remy
>

Re: Alternative to NSI

[Remy Maucherat <re...@betaversion.org>]

Quoting Daniel Ritchey <ri...@hotmail.com>:

> Microsoft has its own installation mechanism built in to Win2000 & WinXP
> and 
> offers a download to add it Win9x.  Its the same thing that the binary 
> release of Apache for windows is packaged in.
> 
> Just thought I would throw that out there, I don't know if it has any 
> advantages over NSI.

Ok, but how do you build the MSI ?
I know InstallShield can generate that, but that costs (lots of) cash ...

There are a few advanced features missing in NSI, but more or less gets the job 
done. It is also very simple to use.

I had a tweaked version of the script, but unfortunately my main HD died on me 
a few moments ago. The tweaks weren't too complex so I should be able to put 
them back in quickly.
What would I do without IMAP (thanks Pier ;-)) and CVS ? (since of course I 
never back up anything) :-)

Remy

Re: Alternative to NSI

[Rolf Veen <ro...@helide.com>]

The Windows installer I like most is InnoSetup
(www.innosetup.org). It's free, but not MSI based.

Rolf.