From: Andrew Chandler Andrew.Chandler@ft.com
Wasn't Sun Microsystems working with the InstallShield people to produce a Java verison of InstallShield? Probably something in the realm of JavaOS I would guess!!
InstallShield is incredibly bulky. Even with 192Mb of RAM on a Pentium II 333 machine, when starting an InstallShield installation it can hang for thirty seconds or more before starting the install process.
When I was writing installation systems for two of Norwich's ISPs I used the Wise Installation system which was far less resource hungry and worked incredibly well. It also has the ability to make it's installation systems .zip compatible so you can use WinZip or PkZip to extract/view files within the package. Very useful.
Talking about .deb packages, has anyone had any millage with 'alien' which converts between different package formats? I've never had need to use it, but it may prove useful to those worried about availability of .debs etc.
Anybody have an URL - I'd like to look at this - seems incredibly useful.
Regards,
Martyn
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