Message-Id:	<199606102337.TAA01518@delorie.com>
Comments:	Authenticated sender is <lb8412 AT mailhost DOT dnet DOT co DOT uk>
From:	"Lee Braiden" <lee_b AT celestia DOT dnet DOT co DOT uk>
Organization:	Celestia
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:35:10 +0
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Installer
Reply-to:	lee_b AT celestia DOT dnet DOT co DOT uk

Hi everyone,

I'm just wondering if anyone has thought of doing an installer for 
DJGPP programs in a standard DOS compiler like TurboC (so that the 
installer is stand-alone) ?

What I'd like to see is something that presents a nice 
screen-orientated interface (maybe even with graphics and messages 
while installing  - microsoft installer style =), and a good script 
language, to allow installation of complex programs and suites (like 
DJGPP =).  I'd like the script language to have plenty of support 
functions for creating message dialogs, file dialogs, and finding out 
which drives are available, how much disk space is free, processor 
type, ram, OSes, etc, modify .INI files, autoexec.bat (with 
multiple config support),   and config.sys.  At least enough M$ 
Widows support to install an icon for the program's PIFs would be 
nice too..

Anyone wanna make it for me ? =)

Also, maybe we need to define standard installation dirs for files, so
that installed progs can check if any files are already installed
without scanning the entire disk and making assumptions about
filenames, etc..

OK.. I might be asking too much, but please redirect flames to 
/dev/null, thanks =)

- Lee.

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Lee Braiden  (lee_b AT celestia DOT dnet DOT co DOT uk)
<Celestia>

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