rbt napisał(a):
I don't think one can distribute mysql within a software package w/o buying a commercial license to do so. Check out their licensing on their website here:
"When your application is not licensed under either the GPL-compatible Free Software License as defined by the Free Software Foundation or approved by OSI, and you intend to or you may distribute MySQL software, you must first obtain a commercial license to the MySQL product."
http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/commercial-license.html
Don't see any legal problem here, if package is on GPL-compatible or OSI-approved license.
Anyway, if you want this "installer" to be multiplatform, I think you should write one. There are many good installer software packages for Windows (chief among free ones are Inno Setup and NSInstall), but I know only one for linux platform -- the one that XFCE uses and I don't know its internals, so I will speak only for Inno Setup for Windows.
It's really comprehensive tool set, as you can perform many tasks during installation -- you can install subpackages, perform pre- and post-installation steps and automate many tasks, providing they can be scripted. See http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php and read documentation, it's definitely worth this.
-- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ | http://www.zgodowie.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
