[M3devel] FW: .msi files for Windows available

[Jay]

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> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> To: lists at darko.org
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: RE: [M3devel] FW: .msi files for Windows available
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:15:52 +0000
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> Eventually, but not by me probably for at least a week or a month or more.
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> RPM too. It should probably come before Mac.
> Except that I don't have any Suse/RedHat/YellowDog/Mandrake/Mandriva systems now, having settled pretty exclusively on Debian (plus the Fit PC that came with Gentoo preinstalled), so I don't know.
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> *BSD also should get some attention.
> But I don't see me getting to that for a while.
> It would be nice to compete with the ezm3 port that is out there.
> It builds from assembly source, which is good, to see there is a precedent we can follow.
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> There are a lot of other formats but I probably won't get to any of them.
> HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Irix all have something, and no users.
> I don't know yet about Tru64 and VMS.
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> Btw, the DESTDIR-like feature that (you?) added to cm3 isn't really needed.
> You can just $CM3_INSTALL and it does basically the same thing.
> Look at Olaf's make-dist.sh.
> It gets a lot done with little code using simple techniques.
> But I'm still sticking to Python. :)
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> I don't think the DESTDIR-like feature handled runpaths or config files as well, which are mostly moot now.
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> (Really..runpath solved by $ORIGIN, but $ORIGIN doesn't solve the problem. $ORIGIN lets you move a set of files together, good, but it doesn't help the situation where you want to move just some of them.)
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> - Jay
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>> From: lists at darko.org
>> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:43:09 +0200
>> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] FW: .msi files for Windows available
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>> Are we going to have Installer packages for Darwin PPC/Intel too or is
>> there some reason not too?
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