Re: [alug] Changes to email web page, and next Sunday's meeting
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!! 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. Andi p.s. Should be coming to ALUG3 - add me to the list of attendees!!
Well at least Windows has the one dominent system that practically *everyone* conforms to
Doesn't mean it's any good though. How often have you installed a package on Windows only to find it overwrites files belonging to other programs, or removed one and had half your system go to?
which I why I say a standard-across-distros GNU Packager is needed.
Indeed; InstallShield for nux would be nice...
Andrew.
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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 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Martyn B. Drake wrote:
Anybody have an URL - I'd like to look at this - seems incredibly useful.
http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Savory at uea.ac.uk All views are my own - who else would want them? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
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.
Yeah, alien seems to work well - it's not perfect because of the impossible task of handling the conversion from redhat deps to debian ones, but I've never had it actually break anything - worst case is that the resulting package doesn't work. Paul [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
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