Hi Phillip, Interesting project. Thank you for going in that direction.
However I'm not sure it adresses my problem. I just want: - Windows users to be able to download a game and not having to worry about anything else - Not having a huge file to download (that's just a small app) - Not taking much time to prepare files to be downloaded Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ Le Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:54:29 +0100, Philip Lowman <phi...@yhbt.com> a écrit: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Sukender <suky0...@free.fr> wrote: > >> Hi all Windows users (and others too, I'm not doing discrimination ;) ), >> >> Under Linux (& co), packages can have dependencies. Under Windows, we're >> far to have such an easy system. >> Question is: how could we redistribute efficiently the OSG binaries (I mean >> when not linking statically) alongside our apps? >> >> Here are my suggestions, please share your thoughts. >> 1. Manually copy the DLLs in the app's dir. That becomes a pain if you >> select each DLL by hand, and you may have multiple copies for each app. >> 2. Say to the user (s)he must download the OSG binaires. Not very user >> firendly, IMO. >> 3. Create a nice installer that contains the OSG packages. Thus the >> installer become obese since we don't need all the DLLs... >> 4. Create a nice installer that contains partial packages. Not very "clean" >> to begin splitting packages I think. >> 5. Create a nice installer that will download packages on the web. Nice, >> but what about installing on a machine that has no connection? Should we >> provide both "online" and "offline" installers? > > > I'm starting a project called CMakePorts that aims to solve some of these > goals. The goal would be to build many of the popular dependent libraries > as part of the OSG and then since they would be "make installed" they could > simply be picked up by CPack (and/or any installer someone might choose to > contribute). > > http://code.google.com/p/cmakeports/wiki/CMakePortsPlan > > It's obviously still in the planning phase right now though. > > >> And about installers... Should we copy the DLLs to the system dir? What >> about Vista and its strange policies about having access to system dirs (I >> simply stayed under XP :D )? >> > > Assuming you want an application to be used by non-administrators and > non-power users (certainly the case with the OSG, IMHO) you're always going > to want the DLLs to at least be available alongside the .EXE files as an > option in the installer. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
