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[Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Even if it's more effort on the packaging side, I'd always vote for
the system-native side -- so whatever is "normal" on the target
system, that's how Syncany should do it too. I do this in programming
as well: instead of going the easy way (e.g. for the Linux tray icon),
I rather implement things in a way that they feel like any other
program to the user.

So I vote for separate packaging ways...

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:37 PM, nocans@xxxxxxxxx <nocans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The question is, what are the projects requirements for packaging.
> If we need to have different packages for different linux-es then izpack
> only benefits us on windows.
> However, if we want to have 1 uniform packaging framework, and not care
> about rpm,deb,etc.. then perhaps we can tweak izpack to work on all
> platforms.
> Bear in mind izpack requires java to be installed.
> Also, by making .rpm, .deb it would allow us to include the software in
> those repositories.
> With that, what do we want ?
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> As I see it, we only need an installer for Windows, right? Linux will
>> have deb/rpm/whatever packages anyway ...
>> And to have the 'native' look & feel, which is important if your
>> application is written in Java (people still don't like Java!), we
>> should use something native on Windows -- Stefan Mai and I had a
>> discussion about this [1]. We both liked Inno Setup [2].
>>
>> Did you take a look at this?
>>
>> [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/syncany-team/msg00059.html
>> [2] http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:57 PM, nocans@xxxxxxxxx <nocans@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Awesome, I'll give it a try. Last time I had the need to do this I
>> > used http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/installanywhere.htm
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Mario Franco <mario.ffranco@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> > I'm also on the lookout for a nice java cross platform packager that
>> >> > is
>> >> > open
>> >> > source, any ideas are appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> After looking at:
>> >> http://java-source.net/open-source/installer-generators
>> >>
>> >> this looks the best
>> >>
>> >> http://izpack.org/
>> >>
>> >> Mário Franco
>> >
>> >
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