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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 11:18:19 +0000
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Subject: Re: CouchDB MSI installer (alpha release)
From: Filipe David Manana <fdmanana@apache.org>
To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
Cc: Dave Cottlehuber <dave@muse.net.nz>, user@couchdb.apache.org
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Great work!
Thanks :)

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Dave Cottlehuber <dave@muse.net.nz> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> I've just pushed a very ghetto CouchDB installer based on the standard
> Windows MSI packaging technology.
>
> If you're confused by now, then you can skip the rest of this email...
>
> https://github.com/wincouch/msicouch
>
> There's an MSI raring to go at
> https://github.com/downloads/wincouch/MsiCouch/Apache_CouchDB_1.0.2.msi
> but I've not had a fresh box to test on so I hope its not missing any
> erlang-fu or couch-fu.
>
> Why is this important? Well, MSI installers deliver a whole lot more
> functionality than the current inno setup one:
>
> - configuring windows firewall settings for erl.exe, werl.exe, epmd.exe e=
tc.
> - able to be deployed directly to PCs using Active Directory GPO (Group P=
olicy)
> - can be chained or integrated into other products cleanly and transparen=
tly
> - long-term would allow other vendors to piggyback their apps on
> Erlang or CouchDB
> - extensive dependency management & rollback capabilities
> - offers the best approach for deploying updated CouchDB packages in a
> large deployment
>
> Features so far:
>
> - it has less functionality than the inno installer we currently use ... =
but ...
> - it's an MSI (woot)
> - it doesn't do services (but you can do this yourself using erlsrv.exe a=
nyway)
> - it doesn't seem to delete your data on rollback but it does trash
> local.ini (not really a feature)
> - it has a cooler banner logo than the inno package (really important
> but could be improved on)
>
> It's based on free/opensource WarSetup + WixEdit + WiX 3.5 and doesn't
> require a commercial release of Visual
> Studio to work. There are infinitely better commercial installer
> packages but it's important that CouchDB can be
> built with a free toolchain.... even if the OS isn't free!
>
> Feedback is a gift -> https://github.com/wincouch/msicouch/issues and
> please let me know what features you
> would like to see in future.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>


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