[ANN] Win32 installer for 3.8

German Arduino gsa at softhome.net
Sun Oct 23 20:34:21 UTC 2005


Cees De Groot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was bored for 10 minutes so decided to do a bit about the
> first-user-experience. The result can be admired at
> http://www.tric.nl/~cg/Squeak3.8-6665full-installer.exe in the form of
> a nice NSIS installer which creates start menu icons and desktop icons
> and all that nauseating stuff :).
> 
> The sources are at
> http://kilana.unibe.ch:8888/WindowsInstaller/InstallerBuilder-CdG.1.mcz
> and replicating this is quite simple:
> 
> - put the source files for the installer in a src/ subdirectory
> - load the mcz in an image
> - install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/)
> - execute
>        Win32InstallerBuilder buildInstallerForProduct: 'Squeak3.8'
> version: '6665full'
> 
> Maybe an idea to collect Linux, MacOS X, .. installers in the same package?
> 
> Anyway, I hope this is useful and that the resulting executable finds
> its way to squeak.org. As usual, feedback is most appreciated
> 
> 

That is exactly the way I maintain the Small-Land Squeak and plugin 
installer, using NSIS, and NSIS Edit, as I posted at 
http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/GermanArduino/diary.html?start=7.

Some screenshot at: http://swiki.agro.uba.ar/small_land/7

Cheers.
gsa.




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