Re: [Inkscape-devel] MSI Packages

Crossposting removed, make things exponentially more difficult to follow. On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Jon Phillips wrote: There are two standard responses to that: 1) Why? 2) Yes please! Do send patches ;) I believe there are some features in MSI which make it easier to automate installs and rollout a program across a large organisation as you describe. NSIS does provide various command line options for a silent install and it should be possible to automate things and perform an unattended install and it may even be possible to get that to work with the cetralised system you mention. Some installers do require a little adjustment to get silent install to work but so long as there are reasonable defaults set for everything it probably already works fine. 1) feeds into 2) since the more you know about the hows and whys the easier it is to help make it happen. Inkscape is great about accepting outside contributions so if you were willing to stick around look into the problem further you would get quite a bit of help making it happen and it is an opportunity for you to get involved. providing a really good report with details of the how to do it will help the next person and increase the chances of making things happen sooner. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/