Paul Ishenin wrote: > > My wish list - port innosetup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) > which is written in delphi and is opensource project. We are using it > for lazarus windows installs.
I know about inno setup, but never used it before. We didn't want to port something because we wanted to think out-of-the-box and build it from the ground up with cross-platform support in mind. Trying to make innosetup fit into a *nix environment might just be as much effort as writing a setup from scratch. Also innosetup is Delphi based, so that is totally limited to Windows platfroms only. When starting from scratch we already use cross-platform features of FPC's RTL, so no need to try and work around the many Windows API calls or Delphi specific features etc.. Porting is not always the fastest way to get a app out. But I must add, reading through the Key Features of inno setup, I already found a few more ideas I would like to add to our setup wishlist. Oh by the way, localization support is definitely a given in our setup. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus