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| From: | "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Claudio Natoli" <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers-win32 " <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Binary installer |
| Date: | 2004-01-23 14:11:40 |
| Message-ID: | 303E00EBDD07B943924382E153890E5434AA6D@cuthbert.rcsinc.local |
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Claudio Natoli wrote:
> > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution.
The nullsoft installer is quite nice. Not sure about Microsoft .msi
packaging...I'm sure that's pretty easy to work with, too. The
installer should besides unzip, offer to run a few batch files (initdb,
etc), set up the environment, and offer set up the postmaster as a
service.
A good windows program has no internal dependencies on the registry.
Postgres is already set up to use the environment which is a more
flexible setup than the registry for servers.
Merlin
p.s.
Is there any way to keep mingw/msys from spamming console windows when
compiling? It's very irritating :(.
| From: | Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille(at)chepelov(dot)org> |
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| To: | Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Claudio Natoli <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers-win32 <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Binary installer |
| Date: | 2004-01-24 09:49:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20040124094902.GB1327@chepelov.org |
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Le Fri, Jan 23, 2004, Ã 09:11:40AM -0500, Merlin Moncure a écrit:
> Claudio Natoli wrote:
> > > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution.
>
> The nullsoft installer is quite nice. Not sure about Microsoft .msi
> packaging...I'm sure that's pretty easy to work with, too. The
> installer should besides unzip, offer to run a few batch files (initdb,
> etc), set up the environment, and offer set up the postmaster as a
> service.
From what I know, NSIS is a bit difficult to work with if you want to go
much beyond unpacking a bunch of files and setting stuff in the
registry (which it does nicely and in a reversible way). Specifically,
there is little support for registering a service and tweaking
permissions.
But the killer is that you can't turn an NSIS install into an MSI merge
module.
OTOH, the bare MSI tools aren't renowned for ease of use, and stuff like
InstallShield or Wise are neither Free nor free. For what it's worth,
Python uses Wise.
-- Cyrille
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