Re: Release: Camelbox 2008.120.0145Z

[Adam Kennedy <adamkennedybackup gmail com>]

spicy jack wrote:
> >  I don't really understand much about how camelbox works, I've looked in
> >  the repository but I don't really see much of anything in the way of
> >  code/etc, so I'm not sure at this point how exactly it works. Until I
> >  work that out, there's not much more I can add.
> >     
>
> Take a look at it from the other direction, i.e. if you're going to
> use a Windows installer of some kind to do all of the work,  which
> installers for Windows provide what functionality?  That's sort of the
> way I approached packages for Camelbox. If I wanted to install
> everything via the NSIS (Nullsoft) installer, I'm limited to whatever
> archive formats are supported in the installer.
I take a similar approach, but from a different direction.

Currently I'm using InnoSetup, on the basis that it supports LZ natively 
and the preferred solution is too difficult at present.

The feedback I get from users is that by far the best solution is to 
move to .msi installers, at least optionally.

The killer feature here is that a network admin can drop the .msi 
installer onto an Active Directory domain and install the package onto 
1,000 computers in an organization simultaneously.

Obviously this is not the same approach you want for clueful users, who 
should be capable of installing their own Perl plus add-ons themselves. 
But nonetheless, both NullSoft and InnoSetup don't have any solution for 
this situation on the horizon that I'm aware of.

So for us, the expectation is that we'll be moving to WiX at some point, 
but it's a shitload of work to do it, so for now we're happy to live 
with InnoSetup.

Adam K