<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Some multiplataform installers:<br><br> <a href="http://installjammer.com/screenshots">InstallJammer</a> <span style="color: black;"></span><!--WISESTAMP_SIG_END-->(OpenSource)<br>
<br><br> <a href="http://installbuilder.bitrock.com/">InstallBuilder</a> (Comercial, but permits free license for OpenSource projects)<br><br>I use InstallBuilder (only for Linux) in my OpenSource Project <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/acbr/">(ACBr)</a>, for Windows, InnoSetup is a natural choice for "Pascal programmers" <br><br>[]s Daniel<br><br>Conheça o <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://acbr.sourceforge.net">Projeto ACBr - Automaçao Comercial Brasil</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.djsystem.com.br"><span style="font-weight: bold;">DJSystem</span> a Loja Patrocinadora do ACBr</a><br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> George Lober
<gl@wellnesssoftworks.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> Lazarus mailing list <lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviadas:</span></b> Quinta-feira, 21 de Janeiro de 2010 9:05:00<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assunto:</span></b> Re: [Lazarus] cross-distro (and OS) app installation - what would you like?<br></font><br>Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:<br>> George Lober wrote:<br>> <br>>> The few that caught my eye were very basic, and not workable with closed source commercial software.<br>>> <a href="http://developer.berlios.de/projects/fixinst/" target="_blank">http://developer.berlios.de/projects/fixinst/</a><br>>> <a href="http://autopackage.org/" target="_blank">http://autopackage.org/</a><br>>> <br>> <br>> We looked at projects like AutoPackage (I really liked this one),<br>>
ZeroInstall, etc... All nice, but unfortunately they first require a<br>> "runtime" to be installed *before* you can install *.package files. That's<br>> no good, because not a single mainstream distro comes standard with those<br>> runtime packages pre-installed.<br>> <br>> The Installer itself shouldn't have such requirements, it should just run.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>>> Besides the deployment issues, another thing that discourages me from writing software for Linux is the virtual non existence of anti-cracking software.<br>>> <br>> <br>> I know what you mean. We flew 1200km to the biggest Security Confrence in<br>> South Africa and spoke to every single vendor there. Not one had<br>> "anti-cracking" security software for Linux. Windows sure, but not Linux.<br>> So we had to implemented that ourselves. We can now lease software, lock to<br>> hardware, xx-day evaluation,
etc... Unfortunately that code is not open<br>> source.<br>> <br><br>The one I know about is called FlexNet, by ROVI (previously MacroVision). It does support multiple platforms including Linux:<br><br> <a href="http://www.rovicorp.com/company/11082.htm" target="_blank">http://www.rovicorp.com/company/11082.htm</a><br> <a href="http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/flexnet-publisher/features.htm" target="_blank">http://www.flexerasoftware.com/products/flexnet-publisher/features.htm</a><br><br>but is a big league mega buck solution. Four years back when I inquired about cost, it was several thousands of dollars.<br><br><br><br>--<br>_______________________________________________<br>Lazarus mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org" href="mailto:Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org">Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org</a><br><a
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