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Subject: Re: Volunteers to drive an MSI build
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:16:37 -0500
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Is there a document to install on Windows from source?  I'd like to run 
through it and create and msi and try to automate the process.

-Will

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregg Smith" <gls@gknw.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Volunteers to drive an MSI build


> On 11/16/2012 12:08 PM, Gregg Smith wrote:
>> On 11/14/2012 3:56 AM, Guenter Knauf wrote:
>>> Am 14.11.2012 12:53, schrieb Guenter Knauf:
>>>> I know that Gregg has 'something' which is not MSI but an EXE 
>>>> installer,
>>>> but it works, and I asked already a while back if we should push this
>>>> out, but there was no further interest / agreement here :-(
>> The 'something' is Inno Setup.
>> 'works' is relative to as much is completed so far.
>
> Another 'something' is NSIS (Nullsoft) which has been picked up by others 
> and is over at sourceforge.
> I used to use it a long time ago but had to give it up for Inno Setup 
> because it was dropped by the original author.
> A nice thing about it is the use and availability of plugins to do a lot 
> of things even Inno cannot do. It's probably not as sharp a learning curve 
> as WIX. Of course, it would mean starting from scratch.
>
> I will take inventory on this Inno Setup scripts and see what is left to 
> do here in a day or two.
>
> Gregg