Johannes, I'll say, yes at least for me. When I eventually turn over administration of the cfas.org site, I anticipate the person who ends up with it will use Windows. I've chosen to use forrest because it's cross-platform and mostly easy to use. And installer will help the latter substantially.
Thanks! -Paul Johannes Schaefer wrote: > Hi! > > I hacked together an installer [1] for Windows that does the following: > - Copies forrest 0.8 to the program directory (C:\Program Files) > - Sets FORREST_HOME > - Seeds a new project (new folder on the user's desktop) > - Creates desktop shortcuts to start forrest and open localhost:8888 > > The installation is based on the zip-file for forrest-0.8 and > results in a total size of 23.088.307 Bytes (slightly *smaller* > than the original zip file). > > I'll attach the script to generate the installer to this e-mail > (you'll probably need to adapt the sources, line 42). > > I don't know how to proceed: > - Is such an installer of general interest? > - Who may help "polish" it (e.g. uninstall, icons, ...)? > - How to commit? The script is easily committed but what about the .exe? > > Cheers, > Johannes > > > [1] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ plus plugin: > [2] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ShellLink_plug-in > > >
