You have raised an important point, Andreas. Wouldn't it be a viable
solution to simply copy the standard image to %AppData% or something
along this line? I am very much for a better deployment for Squeak
itself. Great initiative, Torsten!

Ian.

2010/3/24 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Hi Torsten -
>
> I very much like the idea in general but I'm having some doubts about
> feasibility. I'm not sure if I've asked this already but in modern Windows
> environment the installation location is read only. In other words, if
> you're installing this into C:\Program Files\ you may not be able to
> save/saveAs, you may not be able to write files, you may not be able to
> launch external editors etc. Have you tested any of that?
>
> I do know that Windows has some whacky rules about the install locations
> (i.e., it actually has a shadow directory with files modified by the local
> user) but in many ways that's worse because it can lead to strange
> inconsistencies (files and changes gone when switching between users) if
> you're using it with the assumptions that it's a normal directory.
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>
> On 3/24/2010 3:11 AM, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I created a simple "Setup/Installer for Squeak" for Windows similar
>> to the one that is provided for Pharo. This allows easy
>> installation/deinstallation on Windows without having
>> to search all the necessary files from the website.
>>
>> I have no FTP access on squeak.org to upload the result but is
>> easy to rebuild on your own.
>>
>> See the attached screenshots for the final result
>> and the tutorial below how to redo it. Maybe the release
>> team wants to use that.
>>
>> Bye
>> T.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> A. Download and install the free NSIS installer package, here we use
>> version 2.42 from [1]
>>
>> B. Also download the file "ZIPDLL.zip" plugin from [2]
>>      - Extract ZipDLL.dll to directory "Plugins" in your NSIS installation
>>      - Extract ZipDLL.nsh to directory "Include" in your NSIS installation
>>
>> C. Create a directory "squeakdist41" on your hard disk
>>
>> D. Extract the source file from [3] into this the "squeakdist41" directory
>>
>> E. Extract the latest VM you find at [4] into the "squeakdist41" directory
>>     - which is now 3.11.8, so use the ZIP provided in [5]
>>
>> F. Download the latest image and changes file and again extract it into
>> the "squeakdist41" directory
>>     - we use "Squeak4.1-9745-alpha" here, so extract the files found in
>> [6]
>>
>> G. Extract the attached "Setup_stuff.zip" into the "squeakdist41"
>> directory
>>
>> E. Adapt the definitions at the top of the provided "setup.nsi" script
>> file
>>    (Not needed here, only necessary if you provide other VM versions,
>> images, ...)
>>
>> F. Compile "setup.nsi" with the NSIS installer and you get a shiny new
>> 10MB installer
>>    ("setup_squeak4.1-9745-alpha2010.03.23.exe") to install/remove Squeak
>> from a windows system
>>
>> G. Put it on ftp.squeak.org (only if you have access, I failed here)
>>
>> [1] http://nsis.sourceforge.net
>> [2] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ZipDLL
>> [3] http://ftp.squeak.org/4.0/SqueakV40.sources.gz
>> [4] http://squeakvm.org/win32/
>> [5] http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.8-bin.zip
>> [6] http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.1-9745-alpha.zip
>>
>>
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