home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
kermit.columbia.edu
/
kermit.columbia.edu.tar
/
kermit.columbia.edu
/
newsgroups
/
misc.20041116-20060924
/
000407_jaltman2@nyc.rr.com_Tue Aug 22 16:12:52 2006.msg
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
2006-09-27
|
3KB
Path: reader2.panix.com!reader1.panix.com!panix!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newshub.sdsu.edu!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!news-feed-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-out.nyc.rr.com!news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail
Message-ID: <44EB4DC5.7090104@nyc.rr.com>
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman2@nyc.rr.com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MSI packaged version of K95
References: <GJednR88LfRx3HbZRVnyrg@pipex.net>
In-Reply-To: <GJednR88LfRx3HbZRVnyrg@pipex.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 43
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:30:34 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.175.91.105
X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com
X-Trace: news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com 1156271434 68.175.91.105 (Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:30:34 EDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:30:34 EDT
Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
Xref: panix comp.protocols.kermit.misc:15539
Simon Porter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kermit 95 is currently used throughout the company I work for. One thing
> I've been looking at recently is rolling out software via group policy. I
> would be interested to know if the developers of Kermit would consider
> packaging into a msi install file. Expensive programs such as installsheild
> isn't required. You can use WiX to achieve this. A good tutorial on this can
> be found at: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/
>
> Futher information and downloads:
>
> http://wix.sourceforge.net/
>
> Useful editor:
>
> http://wixedit.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've used it myself to create a few simple packages for various settings and
> shortcuts etc that we like to have installed on our pcs.
>
> Thanks for any replies,
>
> Simon Porter
> Heber Ltd
>
>
I use WIX and NSIS to develop the install packages for MIT Kerberos for
Windows and OpenAFS for Windows. If I were ever to develop another
release of Kermit 95 for Columbia University to distribute I would in
fact use WIX to develop an MSI installer for it.
My suggestion for you would be to install K95 on one machine and then
develop your own installer for it based upon the pieces that were
installed on your machine. One of the strong benefits of using MSIs
are that in addition to automated installation and upgrades via Group
Policy it is possible to apply organization specific transforms to them
to ensure that your own custom dialer entries and scripts are installed
on the machine along with the application.
Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints Inc.