Re: easily making executables, installers, debs, etc.
On 2009-04-16 01:30:18 -0400, fft1976 <fft1976@gmail.com> said:
On Apr 15, 9:48?pm, Owen Jacobson <angrybald...@gmail.com> wrote:
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It's possible to make installers for various platforms, and it's not
TOO difficult. The problem is that there are MANY of them, also user
friendliness is an issue. What will the installer do if there is no
JVM? Native binary splash screen while the JVM is starting, etc.?
After searching the net for a while, I realized that the only tool
that claims to have the features I want is a commercial one,
install4j, and is rather pricey at $1200/developer, but probably pays
for itself in the productivity saved, assuming its quality is good.
Strange that Sun, IBM or the open-source community haven't solved this
for Java yet.
That's also highly platform-dependent. The only OS where it's even an
issue is Windows, though:
- .deb and .rpm files can declare dependencies on the Debian/Ubuntu
and Redhat Java meta-packages, which the respective package managers
can deal with.
- OS X has a 1.5 JVM pre-installed; 1.6 is also available via the
platform's software updater for 64-bit CPUs. Apps do not install JVMs.
- Windows doesn't have either a preinstalled or a standard package for
the JVM, so you need to include the Java MSI in your own and offer to
install it if it's not already installed. I haven't read the license,
so I don't even know whether this is actually allowed.
-o
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