There was a discussion on this topic a few months ago. The main point of contention was installing NAnt/NAntContrib to the same directory or not and whether or not to include NAntContrib at all in the installer.
My feelings remain the same. Use the MSI target as is. It works great, its ready to go, and it fully exercises the MSM and MSI tasks. Building a MSI task with the nightly builds would also make sure the MSM and MSI tasks are tested too :-) There is a certain amount of elegance with a NAnt built MSI of NAnt/NAntContrib. Sort of eating your own dog food. :-) I have been building and using the NAnt built MSI to install NAnt on developer machines here for over 6 months. I haven't tested rc2 yet, but I plan on doing that today. My last build was 1/11 and it worked fine then. John Cole -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Geurts Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:24 AM To: Ian MacLean Cc: Swoogan; nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [nant-dev] Windows installer for binary distribution. I agree that a win32 install would be a nice addition to NAnt. I think it could get some people using NAnt that would otherwise shy away from it... The install script in NAntContrib is functional, to the best of my knowledge. It just hasn't been used to generate official installs. I would say that if it's easier for more people to support innosetup over traditional msi, then we should go that route. Otherwise, if it really doesn't buy us anything, then I would stick with the msi targets in NAntContrib. On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:37:32 +0900, Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Swoogan, > > > I wrote an installer script for Inno Setup > > (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) for NAnt distribution around my > > office and I would like to contribute it. Besides copying the files, it > > adds the nant bin directory the environment path and creates a registry > > entry pointing to the installation path for third party apps to > > reference (such as the NAnt-contrib installer I intend to create). > > > > You can download the installer here (perhaps we can move this to > > sourceforge if you like what you see): > > http://swoogan.com/downloads/nant/NAnt-0.85-rc2-setup.exe > > looks pretty cool. NAnt certainly needs a win32 installer. I think there > is a build file in NAntContrib to create a nant msi but I'm not sure if > its been decided to ship that - certainly its been there for ages and we > haven't shipped an msi installer yet. > > So I guess now is as good a time to decide. Do we want to : > a) go with the msi based installer ( has the virtue of exercising the > msi tasks ) > b) use Swoogan's innosetup installer ( seems simpler than full blown msi ) > c) somthing else ? > > btw is InnoSetup free/opensource - I don't have internet acesss right > now to check. > > oh and how easy would it be to add an installer dialog page that finds > the list of available frameworks ( from the registry ) and allows the > user to select the one they would like to use as the default ? > > Ian > > > > > > The script I used to create the installer can be found here > > http://swoogan.com/downloads/nant/NAnt_installer.zip > > You will need Inno Setup to compile the script > > (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php). I simply unzip the zipped > > binary distribution from SF and drop the script in the root. Running > > it from there creates an 'installer' dir where the compiled installer > > is placed. > > > > I've also included a simple nant task for creating the installer from a > > nant build file in the zip file. The tag is simply: > > <innosetup script="NAnt.iss" /> (really just a substitution for using > > <exec>). This task requires that Inno Setup 5 be installed. > > > > > > Swoogan > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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