[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.2.10 for WinNT/2000/XP available (fwd)

[Murawski, Rob]

I have been considering re-writing all of the installer files to use
something more current than InstallShield. (And more available)  I was
looking for an open source installer program so that anyone can build
the entire package.  The one I came across that looked pretty good was
the NullSoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS):
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/site/index.php  It does not build MSI files,
but I haven't found anything free that does. (Does anyone know of such
an animal?)

I'm not sure if there are any licensing conflicts with doing this, but I
imagine it would be OK.  It seems to support the feature set we need--I
just need to go over the InstallShield script and convert the
functionality.

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to port the installer text to the
other languages.  Any issues with this?

As a note, I'm not an InstallShield guru--I just used what was in the
source tree to build the image.  I'm kind of surprised anything changed
between the 1.2.9a and 1.2.10 builds other than removing the additional
languages.

-Rob Murawski

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Joyce [mailto:stephen@physics.unc.edu]=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:59 AM
To: openafs-info@openafs.org
Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS 1.2.10 for
WinNT/2000/XP available (fwd)



I realize that beggars can't be choosers, but can a windows .exe
installer for 1.2.10 be provided that obeys the /r record and /s silent
install InstallShield features work (or a working MSI--I'm not picky).

The silent install kinda-sorta worked with the 1.2.9 installer, but
appears to not work at all with the 1.2.10 installer.

Cheers,
Stephen
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> As always, the latest release can be found at:
>
>       http://www.openfs.org/release/latest.html
>
> Thanks to Rob Murawski for the build.


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