[Nut-upsdev] [nut-commits] svn commit r2940 - in branches/windows_port/scripts/Windows/Installer

[Frédéric Bohé]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 21:27 -0400, Charles Lepple wrote:
> >
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> > From: Frederic BOHE <fbohe-guest at alioth.debian.org>
> > To: nut-commits at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:57:09 +0000
> > Subject: svn commit r2940 - in
> > branches/windows_port/scripts/Windows/Installer: . ImageFiles
> > ImageFiles/Binary ImageFiles/Others ImageFiles/emptyDir
> > ImageFiles/emptyDir/cgi-bin ImageFiles/emptyDir/html
> > ImageFiles/emptyDir/include ImageFiles/emptyDir/man1
> > ImageFiles/emptyDir/man3 ImageFiles/emptyDir/pkgconfig
> > ImageFiles/emptyDir/run ImageFiles/icons ImageFiles/libusb
> > Author: fbohe-guest
> > Date: Wed Mar 16 14:57:06 2011
> > New Revision: 2940
> > URL: http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/2940
> >
> > Log:
> > Windows scripts and support files for NUT Windows installer using WIX
> > (from Praveen Kumar)
> 
> Does WIX run on any of the platforms where we have a BuildBot slave?

I don't think so.

> If not, we should really consider something portable like NSIS:
> 
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

We choose WIX because it produces .MSI files whereas NSIS only produce
executable.
MSI files seems to be the preferred format for Windows installer
nowadays since MSI files can be deployed through Active Directory on
remote machines and restore points are created by the OS when a MSI file
is installed.



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