Message-Id: <199606102337.TAA01518@delorie.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Lee Braiden" Organization: Celestia To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:35:10 +0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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. -- Lee Braiden (lee_b AT celestia DOT dnet DOT co DOT uk)