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Hi Philipp,

On Windows, lots of Java applications are "wrapped" as exe programs ... This
simplifies deployment on Windows platforms.

For example :

http://www.excelsior-usa.com/articles/java-to-exe.html

I don't think we may redistribute the Sun / Oracle JRE with the application
(?) ... But the installer program should check if it's installed and warn
the enduser if it is not installed or if the JRE version is too old.

For my job, I often use "Inno Setup" to build windows applications
installers. It's a flexible / scriptable tool.

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

For Windows deployment, is there a "functional" version of syncany ( branch
? ) I could try to build and run for further testing on XP / 7 ?

... Any other ideas or comments ???

Cheers,

Thierry



2011/5/30 Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi everyone,
>
> With regard to the variety of Linux distributions and other OSs
> Syncany is (hopefully) going to be used on, I think we need to do some
> sort of dependency management. Some packages are available on some
> systems, others are not. Especially on Windows (and OSX?), all
> dependencies have to be shipped with the application.
>
> Does anybody know how other projects do that?
>
> >From the top of my head, I'd suggest to have all required JARs in the
> library folder and write different Ant scripts for the different
> platforms. However, that would mean that the library folder would
> become very large very quickly...
>
> Any other ideas? Comments? Anybody interested in doing that? Would be
> of great help!
>
> I think the above dependency issues are also relevant for the plugins
> and their dependencies. I believe carrying around all the plugins with
> the main application is not a good thing, because most people will use
> only one or two of them. I think it would be great to have one JAR
> file per plugin and the possibility to put them in a plugin folder
> (e.g. ~/.syncany/plugins).
>
> Again, I could really use some help with this so I can concentrate on
> the main synchronization algorithm.
>
> Cheers,
> Philipp
>
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