Fine with me. With that, perhaps a list of what packages we want to support, source and bin, today and tomorrow, such that a measure of priority can be set ?
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Philipp Heckel <[email protected]>wrote: > Even if it's more effort on the packaging side, I'd always vote for > the system-native side -- so whatever is "normal" on the target > system, that's how Syncany should do it too. I do this in programming > as well: instead of going the easy way (e.g. for the Linux tray icon), > I rather implement things in a way that they feel like any other > program to the user. > > So I vote for separate packaging ways... > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:37 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The question is, what are the projects requirements for packaging. > > If we need to have different packages for different linux-es then izpack > > only benefits us on windows. > > However, if we want to have 1 uniform packaging framework, and not care > > about rpm,deb,etc.. then perhaps we can tweak izpack to work on all > > platforms. > > Bear in mind izpack requires java to be installed. > > Also, by making .rpm, .deb it would allow us to include the software in > > those repositories. > > With that, what do we want ? > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Philipp Heckel < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> As I see it, we only need an installer for Windows, right? Linux will > >> have deb/rpm/whatever packages anyway ... > >> And to have the 'native' look & feel, which is important if your > >> application is written in Java (people still don't like Java!), we > >> should use something native on Windows -- Stefan Mai and I had a > >> discussion about this [1]. We both liked Inno Setup [2]. > >> > >> Did you take a look at this? > >> > >> [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/syncany-team/msg00059.html > >> [2] http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php > >> > >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:57 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Awesome, I'll give it a try. Last time I had the need to do this I > >> > used http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/installanywhere.htm > >> > Thanks. > >> > > >> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Mario Franco < > [email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Hi > >> >> > >> >> > I'm also on the lookout for a nice java cross platform packager > that > >> >> > is > >> >> > open > >> >> > source, any ideas are appreciated. > >> >> > >> >> After looking at: > >> >> http://java-source.net/open-source/installer-generators > >> >> > >> >> this looks the best > >> >> > >> >> http://izpack.org/ > >> >> > >> >> Mário Franco > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > >> > Post to : [email protected] > >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~syncany-team > >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > >> > > > > > >
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