[M3devel] FW: .msi files for Windows available

[Darko Volaric]

DESTDIR wasn't me.

On 29/06/2009, at 7:15 PM, Jay wrote:

>
> Eventually, but not by me probably for at least a week or a month or  
> more.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> *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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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. :)
>
>
> I don't think the DESTDIR-like feature handled runpaths or config  
> files as well, which are mostly moot now.
>
>
> (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.)
>
>
> - 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
>>
>> Are we going to have Installer packages for Darwin PPC/Intel too or  
>> is
>> there some reason not too?
>>
>>
>> On 29/06/2009, at 5:18 AM, Jay wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Was truncated.
>>>
>>>
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>>>> From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
>>>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>>>> Subject: .msi files for Windows available
>>>> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:08:44 +0000
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives
>>>>
>>>> now contains .msi files for Windows:
>>>>
>>>> http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-min-NT386-d5.8.1.msi
>>>> http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/uploaded-archives/cm3-std-NT386-d5.8.1.msi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> These are some of the first .msi files I have ever made.
>>>> I used WiX. scripts/python/make-dist.py makes them.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some of the highlights/lowlights:
>>>> They always install all of what they have. There is not (yet)
>>>> support for the package sets.
>>>> They always modify %PATH%. It should be an option.
>>>> They append to %PATH%. My intent was to prepend. (It appears  
>>>> obvious
>>>> how, but it didn't work.)
>>>> They have an uninstaller, listed in add/remove programs.
>>>> Not listed in the start menu. That seems to be go either way in
>>>> practise.
>>>> The uninstaller does remove c:\cm3\bin from %path%, besides  
>>>> deleting
>>>> all the files -- that didn't take any extra work.
>>>> They don't put anything in the start menu.
>>>> What would it be? Oh, I need to try cm3ide, which probably isn't  
>>>> here
>>