On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, ??? wrote:
To save your time, you should limit your tests to:
It doesn't take much human time.
1. Command-line tools.
Creation of installs is automated.
GUI tools cannot be used in automated builds.
2. Completely cross-platform.
For obvious reasons.
3. Completely Open source.
For obvious reasons.
4. Compress time should be definitely less than 10 minutes.
Sometimes we do 4-5 builds one after the other.
We simply cannot afford to wait 2 hours, and we never know
whether the next build will be the final one.
Any solution that falls outside of this is not acceptable in advance.
Michael.
From first message:
1. rar,7z, bzip2+tar/bzip2+? (I used rar to create ball), gzip+tar/gzip+?
(--)
it depends on script writer
2. nothing is completely cross-platform, but all the four archivers provide executables
(sources are great, but executables do work) for a good deal of platforms/systems (7z
disclaims that executables are official).
3. 7z, bzip2, gzip
4. ??? well, if the thing is not bigger than
FPCsvn directory, they fit.
? I was talking about the time it takes to create the compressed file.
This should not
You didn't mention memory requirements.
Because they are not an issue.
Time, command-line use and availability are issues.
However, bzip2 is already great for FPC-sized installs.
Personally, I also think this can be used, but it should
be checked that this is available for all platforms.
Inno setup (for the windows installer) uses bz2, so that is
already a start :-)
Michael.
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