Re: Win32 3.0.8 distribution??

On May 23, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > What are the license implications of shipping an InstallShield'ed package? > I looked at IS about a year ago and was amazed how crappy it was. I spent > an entire weekend trying to build a simple little installer and in the end > I finally managed to get it to almost do what I wanted, but I was so > frustrated with the amount of crap I had to go through that I tossed it. I agree. It's been my experience that it easier to simply roll your own installer than bother with InstallShield if you have to do anything at all tricky, or want to be able to share the installer in a meaningful way (ie. the InstallShield "projects" or whatever they call them are binary, as I recall, and have hard-coded paths). There are other install packages that have struck me as more impressive, even though InstallShield seems to be "industry-standard." I don't recall the reasoning, but the reason Shane went back to just a ZIP file instead of the installer he was using is that really isn't that much that needs to be done by the installer, and people are usually better off doing it by hand so that they know what they heck they've done. Jim -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net