Bo Peng wrote:
Bo> 1. free of license problem (legal) 2. only have the essentials
Bo> (small). 3. try to support a wide range of settings 4. and try not
Bo> to require administrate privilege
This looks good, although there may be a case for a version that
contains everything needed or has code to grab it automagically from
the net.
Joost said that he is working on a perfect installer, but did not say
what he is trying to achieve. I guess we should wait for him to finish
his work.
Bo
I'm one of the NSIS developers and have a lot of experience with Windows
software distribution, so I indeed decided that it is time to create a
new installer that will hopefully become official and replace both the
current limited official installer and Uwe's installer. I found a number
of issues in both installers that will also be solved.
The standard installer will be small, contain only essential
GPL-compatible files and automatically download components like
ImageMagick, Ghostscript and MiKTeX if the users wants to.
If there is a need for a non-GPL installer with bundled software, that
one should be compiled from the same scripts and not be an external
project with different scripts.
I'm now going to try the new configuration patches of Jean-Marc. If they
work fine, the results of my project will be posted very soon.
Joost
