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["nocans@xxxxxxxxx" <nocans@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fine with me.

With that, perhaps a list of what packages we want to support, source and
bin, today and tomorrow, such that a measure of priority can be set ?

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Philipp Heckel
<philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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