On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For everybody's knowledge :) I'm working on single-app KDE installers > based on Windows Installer (built with the WiX toolkit). > > My plan is to have a .msi with KDE Frameworks, Qt, and other common > dependencies that all app needs, and another .msi for each app. Then > there will be a .exe installer for each app, which chains together the > deps and the app. The app package will be embedded inside the > installer .exe, while the dependencies will be downloaded on demand. > > Why the download on demand? If I were to embed both .msi's inside the > installer executable, the installers would work offline, but they > would be large (50-100MB) for every app, and the user would be > downloading the same data multiple times. By downloading the deps > during installation, we get relatively small installers (app only) > that will only download a larger package if it's the first KDE app you > are installing. > > To make the executable installers (bundles), I'm using the WiX Burn > tool. Its default user interface looks like this: > http://i.imgur.com/zokLHVe.png which is better than the typical setup > wizard, but it isn't the nicest thing ever either. It's possible to > change the UI by providing a theme XML file with the dialog layout > (it's like a Qt .ui), or also by providing custom code in a DLL. I > will investigate the DLL approach and see if I can make a UI in Qt > that way :) > > The WiX code is available on kde:scratch/nalvarez/kde-wix.git. > > Questions welcome :) > Would it make sense then to have a Muon Discover version targeting windows? The bad part is that by installing it we'd be pulling half KDE+Frameworks, but from there it would be quite consistent. Aleix
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