Hi Hendrik,<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 30, 2007 12:20 AM, Hendrik Sattler <<a href="mailto:post@hendrik-sattler.de">post@hendrik-sattler.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Am Donnerstag 29 November 2007 schrieb Félix C. Morency:<br><div class="Ih2E3d">> What I'm talking about is I think it would be a good idea to have one (and<br>> only one) installer generator that supports multiple platforms in order to:
<br>><br>> 1) Support only one installation program<br>> 2) Use the same installation syntax for every platform within CMake<br>><br>> Although using native system installer isn't a bad idea, it could be nice
<br>> to support cross-platform installers. Anyway, I found this idea on the<br>> CMake bug/feature tracker. It is not from me.<br><br></div>Installers for systems that use other installation philosophies is actually a
<br>bad idea. For Linux, the right choice is .rpm and .deb and supporting the<br>already present Windows installer (by providing a .msi) seems more logical<br>that reinventing the wheel every time (and the software list in the Windows
<br>control center is missing some information for those like the installed<br>size).<br></blockquote><div><br>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".
<br><br>Regards,<br>--<br>Mehdi<br> </div></div><br>