On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:22 +0100, Peer Sommerlund wrote: > > > 2009/2/12 TK Soh <[email protected]> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In theory, a future upgrade of THG would only require a > restart of > > explorer.exe if the upgrade were 'in place'. > > > Technically, restart explorer.exe is all we need (rebooting is > a > simply the easiest way to guarantee that). I heard TCVS is > doing this, > but not sure how complicated the approach is. > > If we can get the WIX installer in place, then many things > should be possible. > > > > > It is surprising how much stuff you can do from Inno. > > > > I did some work on Wix about a year ago. As I recall My final > conclusion was that the install-without-reboot is probably not worth > the work needed to convert from Inno, since Inno just requires a small > program (maybe 10 lines of code) that restarts explorer. As the > installer write in HKLM we must reboot no matter which installer we > use. > > > To completely avoid reboot we should add a user-only installation > path. > > > There are other arguments for a switch to Wix, e.g. msi being a > windows standard. On the other hand, after scanning the manuals of > both products my impression was they can do almost the same things, > and that wix files are significantly more complex to read. Wix does > not give you flexibility for free, you will also have to write custom > code to make a customized installer - and in my eyes this reduces the > advantage of wix. > > I would not pretend to have deep knowledge about writing windows > installers, so maybe somebody could explan the advantage of switching > to wix.
Wix seems to support optional install parameters better than Inno does, but that may just be lack of experience on my part. Here's what I'd like to see in the 0.8 installer: * Optional overlay support (no TortoiseOverlays or hooks registered) * Optional shell integration (no COM services registered at all) * Detect situations where uninstall is required and force them For translations, I think we can ship them all. And I'm not too concerned about translating the installer itself, but it would be nice. MSI seems to be the "future" for software distribution on Windows, but if we can get the above features without WIX, I would be ok with it. -- Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
