From new-httpd-owner-new-httpd-archive=hyperreal.org@apache.org Sun Dec 07 16:58:20 1997 Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 19644 invoked by uid 6000); 7 Dec 1997 16:58:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 19638 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1997 16:58:17 -0000 Received: from gate-isdn.ukweb.com (194.152.65.149) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 7 Dec 1997 16:58:17 -0000 Received: from ecstasy.localnet [192.168.2.4] by gate-isdn.ukweb.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xek2K-0002xq-00; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:58:32 +0000 Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:58:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Sutton To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: Separate Win32 package for 1.3b3 icons & htdocs In-Reply-To: <348AC680.A6D7792E@algroup.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Ben Laurie wrote: > OK, I've zipped it (and probably a pile of tosh it didn't need) and it > is available at httpd/dist/ApacheIS.zip. The path it lives in on my > machine (which may have to be identical) is: > c:/work/apachen/InstallShield > the apache tree will definitely need to be rooted at c:/work/apachen. Got it, and .... ugh, IS5 has to be one of the worst programs I've ever used. You simply cannot seem to use the installation configuration files in a different directory from the one where it was original made. Not only that, you can't even easily change the location of the files it is distributing. Actually you can, because all the config files are plain text, except that it splits them across *dozens* of separate configuration files (one per "file group"). It would be a nightmare to maintain this in CVS such that multiple developers could access it from their own machines. Yuk yuk yuk. Plus I cannot figure out how to do a single-exe build (Ben: I guess you did this using PackageForTheWeb -- is that a separate program, or a freely available extension?). Or how to do a build from the command line. And no upgrade path from IS2 configurations. I thought that IS2 was bad, but at least you can do easy single .exe install programs, and its configuration is stored in a single file so you can search-and-replace path names when you import/export it from CVS. //pcs