[kepler-dev] Kepler Installer

[Zhengang Cheng]

Hi,

I agree that other packaging might also good.
Our selection of InstallShield is based on our previous experience with it
and we had bought a license. I know that InstallShield has a multiplatform
version for install on other OS.

We are very glad to see the use of InstallAnywhere if it can install for us
on windows, linux and Mac. Or anything that can correctly install our
package.

In terms of InstallShield installer, besides copying all those files,
creating shortcuts, it also updates a file content for classpath.

I do not know who will lead in investigating the new installer.

Thanks,

Zhengang Cheng

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Xiaowen Xin" <xin2 at llnl.gov>
To: <kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
Cc: <sdm-dev at sdsc.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: [kepler-dev] Kepler Installer


> Hi,
>
> Has anyone considered using NSIS from Nullsoft (maker of Winamp) to
> create a Kepler Installer for Windows?  InstallAnywhere and
> InstallShield both appear to be commercial products, while NSIS is
> licensed under the GPL.  If you've installed Winamp, then you've
> probably seen it in action.
>
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/home/ <- their homepage
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/users/ <- some users of NSIS
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/features/screenshots/ <- screenshots
>
> It looks a lot prettier now than the Winamp installations I remember,
> and I think it should be considered as a viable option for creating an
> installer.
>
> I did an inventory of what changes Kepler's ant install makes to the
> Ptolemy directory on Linux.  Here are the results:
>
> 1. 26 files are added to the top-level Ptolemy directory.
> 2. kepler.jar is added to Ptolemy's lib/ directory.
> 3. 9 xml files are added to Ptolemy's ptolemy/actor/lib/ directory.
> 4. 6 original Ptolemy files were changed.
>
> Actually the only change made to ptolemy/actor/lib/sources.xml was the
> deletion of two newline's at the end of the file; could someone remove
> the references to that file from build.xml?
>
> The installer also replaced Ptolemy II's copyright.txt with its own.
> They're almost identical, but maybe it would be better to have both
> copyright.txt's there.
>
> Detailed information is at the end of the email.
>
> How would you all feel about creating a kepler subdirectory and putting
> all these files in there instead?  As it is, Ptolemy's top-level
> directory resembles a messy room.  It's much harder to make sense of a
> directory listing there, and to understand the directory hierarchy.  If
> we created a subdirectory for Kepler, then it would be much easier to
> distinguish between files installed by Kepler and ones that were part of
> the original Ptolemy installation.
>
> As far as I can tell, the only files we'd have to change to make this
> work are the few files that were changed from the original Ptolemy ones,
> because they're the only ones that refer to these files, so would break
> if they changed locations.
>
> Another small thing is that the build.xml file contains the line:
>     <filter token="emlsample" value="${ptolemydir}/eml-sample.xml"/>
> but I can't find "emlsample" anywhere else in the file, so it's probably
> a useless line; could someone delete it?
>
> What extra things does the installer on Windows do?  Ilkay, you've said
> that the Windows installer creates a demo directory and a documentation
> directory, and that there's a file called vergil.lax.  What does
> vergil.lax do?  It's not present on Linux.  I think we should work to
> make the installers on Linux and Windows do basically the same thing
> because this is just plain confusing.
>
>
> Xiaowen
>
>
> ----------
>
> Files added by Kepler:
>
> backpropModel.xml
> BrowserandWSInterfaceDemo-TRY.xml
> classifier.xml
> config.xml
> DiscreteLogistic.xml
> eml-sample.xml
> eml-simple-plot.moml
> garpModel.xml
> geon_logo2.jpg
> GEONMapHierarchicalModel.xml
> grass-test.xml
> HaltIteration.xml
> kepler-index.html
> kepler-logo2.png
> LVPredPreyLogistic.xml
> LVPredPrey.xml
> model-density-gridder-dimension.xml
> nmiworkflow-example.xml
> PIW-full.xml
> ptIIplanet.gif
> queryTestDB2.xml
> queryTest.xml
> sample.dat
> sdmcenter.gif
> seeklogo.png
> UserInterfaceDemo.xml
>
> lib/kepler.jar
>
> ptolemy/actor/lib/DynamicActors.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/eml.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/garp.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/geon.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/gis.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/kepler.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/nmiworkflow.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/spa.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/webservices.xml
>
>
> Files changed by Kepler:
>
> copyright.txt
> ptolemy/actor/lib/sinks.xml
> ptolemy/actor/lib/sources.xml
> ptolemy/configs/basicActorLibrary.xml
> ptolemy/configs/doc/demos.htm
> ptolemy/configs/graphTableauFactory.xml
>
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