On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:34:32AM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:03 +0100, Antony J Mee wrote:
I notice that the OpenOffice team have now made their Windows version into an MSI package which will greatly ease the adoption
I expect that comes from Star Office developers paid be Sun Microsystms and is meeting the needs of their paying corporate customers.
of the package in University departments for example (which more commonly nowadays) often run WIndows Domains with centralized installation systems.
Is your University interested in installing Inkscape for all students are you making a speculative suggestion in the hope that they might do it if it were easier?
There are two standard responses to that:
[that being the question of MSI support]
- Why?
- 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.
Just to ditto Alan's words - I haven't heard of MSI before, but in general yeah, if it scratches your itch, please investigate and find a solution, and then send it in for inclusion in Inkscape proper.
This request against NSIS for MSI support may also be of interest http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=867084&grou...
As I first thought your best bet is to take a closer look at using the /SILENT option in NSIS.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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