Simple installer

by **emerald000** » 07 Aug 2014, 16:17

Is there any reason why we don't have an easy installer (.exe for windows for instance) that installs the necessary files and creates executable launchers?

by **noxx** » 07 Aug 2014, 17:59

no real reason

other than
1) devs start a project from IDE and never think over installers

2) you need an experience with it
3) lack of desire/time/doing other tasks

Actually I also thought about it recently (though I use Mac OS). And what I'm interested in is creating .dmg file as well (it's similar to .msi in Windows). Our neighbour project Forge builds .dmgs somehow.

So good idea, I like it!

by **JeffHoogland** » 10 Aug 2014, 22:10

I think this is something worth while for you folks to pursue. Installers means more users, which means more bug reports, which means a better project.

I'm going to prepare some .DEB installers for Ubuntu/Debian Linux by this weekend hopefully.

~Jeff