From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27338 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jilani Khaldi Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 2c considerations about win installer Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:43:54 +0200 Message-ID: <44488D3A.8010404@virgilio.it> References: <60f8c1827dc0a7c7006ddc52611e9944@di.unito.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145605519 7992 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2006 07:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 21 09:45:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWqKE-00040S-M6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:45:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5986A1276B; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:45:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32425-01; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7079C1276F; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD0C71276F for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:41:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29767-01-4 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:41:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from vsmtp14.tin.it (vsmtp14.tin.it [212.216.176.118]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id B58231276B for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:41:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.251] (82.51.114.129) by vsmtp14.tin.it (7.2.072.1) (authenticated as jilani.khaldi1@virgilio.it) id 44417DA10034D493 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:42:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <60f8c1827dc0a7c7006ddc52611e9944@di.unito.it> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27338 Archived-At: >So, more generally, I was asking myself if it would not be possible >(and better) to have an .exe installer as usual happens in win, >including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much). >Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters. A >completely autonomous installer would allow many people to try, use >and get fond conTeXt (and maybe to leave Word) without having to >struggle with problems which typically lead people to leave out. > >It seems to me that a similar installer would be a refinement in the >spirit of the actual mswincontext distro. >At the end, it's not that far form Gerben's distro on macosx. It does >everything for me... >Or maybe am I missing something? > > > No, nothing; and it is very easy to do it, above all when it could be done with Ruby using the "gem" installation. You can install and update ConTeXt with a single comand controlling indipendies and everything else needed. It is also very easy using "InnoSetup" (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php). Cheers, jk -- Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com