[CMake] Re: CMake Digest, Vol 43, Issue 105

[Mehdi Rabah]

Hi Hendrik,


On Nov 30, 2007 12:20 AM, Hendrik Sattler <post at hendrik-sattler.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag 29 November 2007 schrieb Félix C. Morency:
> > What I'm talking about is I think it would be a good idea to have one
> (and
> > only one) installer generator that supports multiple platforms in order
> to:
> >
> > 1) Support only one installation program
> > 2) Use the same installation syntax for every platform within CMake
> >
> > Although using native system installer isn't a bad idea, it could be
> nice
> > to support cross-platform installers. Anyway, I found this idea on the
> > CMake bug/feature tracker. It is not from me.
>
> Installers for systems that use other installation philosophies is
> actually a
> bad idea. For Linux, the right choice is .rpm and .deb and supporting the
> already present Windows installer (by providing a .msi) seems more logical
> that reinventing the wheel every time (and the software list in the
> Windows
> control center is missing some information for those like the installed
> size).
>

I'm interesting in knowing why it is a bad idea. I'm not interesting in
re-developping a cross platform generator, but I still want to know what are
the deployment issue that makes it less "logical".

Regards,
--
Mehdi
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