[mythtv] Windows packaging

Bill Williamson bill at bbqninja.com
Fri Mar 7 21:39:43 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Johan Heikkilä <johan.heikkila at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/3/7, Nigel Pearson <nigel at ind.tansu.com.au>:
> >
> >  To save filling up the Trac ticket too much, lets discuss
> >  #4874 (win32 - default MYTHCONFDIR for windows) here.
> >
> >
>
> >
> >
> >  3) If there is some magical packaging structure
> >  in Windows (e.g. Vista) that I don't know about,
> >  we add code like the current MacOS X one at line 363
> >
>
> Hello, if you want installations on Vista, I think you have to use MSI
> if it is supposed to work like on other Windows versions. If you
> install it only to the desktop or My Documents it will work fine
> without MSI.
>
> I haven't been following how the 'free world' does packaging for
> Windows (I do MSI packaging for living), but I know there are some
> free toolsets, e.g. WIX http://wix.sourceforge.net/ This should be
> ideal for making Vista compatible installations. Here is an example
> how UAC can be dealt with with WIX.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/11/18/6385121.aspx


WIX is the best choice for free windows packaging.  We even use it at
work despite having access to commercial tools.

The only place where WIX falls down is when doing enterprise level
"zero touch" rollouts, which isn't an issue for myth.



NSIS is the other option, but WIX is a much better choice IMO.


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