Software Engineering - Cross-platform installer package?

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Cross-platform installer package?

slippymississippi@yahoo.com

2006-09-01, 7:00 pm

Does anyone know of a cross-platform installer package? Scanning
Google, it appears that the installer package landscape is all focused
on specific operating systems.

William

2006-09-05, 7:00 pm

<slippymississippi@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a cross-platform installer package? Scanning
> Google, it appears that the installer package landscape is all focused
> on specific operating systems.

There is InstallShield Multiplatform and InstallAnywhere.
(Both owned by Macrovision, now, and I believe ISMP has been,
or is being, dropped in favor of IA.)

I also recently wrote a cross-platform installer in Perl. (The
big advantage to using Perl instead of a Java-based installer
is the smaller footprint - assuming you bundle the jvm in the
installer (which you need to do to guarantee uninstall
capability). The perl installer I wrote was command line only,
but wrapping it in a GUI wouldn't have been hard.

-Wm

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