> It takes a "build description" file like: > https://github.com/dieterv/pygtk-installer/blob/master/wix/2.24.0.win32.xml > downloads required files, extracts them, applies transformations if > requested, > repacks, etc until finally a .msi is produced. > > It is currently capable of packaging zips from ftp.gnome.org and also > Python > distutils generated .msi files (for PyCairo, PyGTK, PyGObject, etc). > Cleaning this up and making it more generic and easier to use is > something > I've been wanting to do for a long time now...
Cool! note: these are my uninformed ideas, I have not actually seen the implementation for the methods you describe... I think JHBuild is *almost* able to do this itself. If the binary/zip module type patch was applied to JHbuild then I think this would not be too much work to complete. AIUI JHbuild now tracks installed files and can create a manifest. This manifest + JHbuild supporting binary/zip module types would give you all the meta information to write msi/wix/nsi installers. John _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
