Combine this with a way to easily add repositories to your configuration (perhaps with a special web link type like mailto:) and you can consider application installation/removal solved. It automates the procedure of generating. Build Buddy solves that by making it extremely easy to package your software for multiple platforms. One of the few remaining problems with existing package managers (aside from GUIs that need to be simplified) is that the package you want isn’t always available for your distribution. Not to mention who much nicer things are when upgrades and dependency-tracking are done automagically. Intelligent package managers take the “Add/Remove Programs” concept to the next level, by letting you actually add programs as easily as removing them. God knows I’ll be happy if I never have to see another Motif installer again! Maybe Sun will take a hint and use this to make Java less of a bitch to install?īut going forward, I think something like Ximian’s Build Buddy is the best way to go. ![]() I really hope this is just a stop-gap solution for certain companies distributing binaries. It may not be free, but at least someone has finally gotten around to creating something that should have been completed years ago. Until then Mac OS X & (unfortunitely) Windows will be the os’s I use most with linux a distant 3rd on my list. I just wanna get in, do what I want and get out without having to configure stuff that really should just be initialized to defaults. Now if only the linux developers would get out of denial and start making linux easier. This is the first step BADLY needed to make Linux easier to use. Look the world hasn’t ended you haven’t lost any advanced options, quit complaining. I don’t know why the geeks were like “man it’s impossible you can never have an installer thats text and/or gui.” I don’t know why not, personally they sounded like the people saying “the world is flat” and the world would somehow collapse if something like this happened. Man it took all of this time for someone to finally come out with a installer that can be text,gui,etc. Now, this one seems to be the only one that is really close to what BitRock does, but their site is not offering much info of its features and what not, so it is difficult to say if this can compete with Bitrock: This one sorts out dependancies, it is like a universal front end for DEBs or RPMs more than anything else, however it does have Bitrock’s characteristics. This is close too, but it is not the same as Bitrock. So, these are out because of their java dependency: The best bet is to go with Motif or TCL/TK, but these days, GTK or Qt is maybe an even better bet. ![]() Not all distros have Java installed and not all users have it installed manually (remember that Bitrock’s targetting customers need to be able to get to as to many users as possible). Here is the lowdown from the ones that are actually distro-unspecific Installer builders (that means, they are not just for RPM or just for DEB files but they can build their own independant packages with or without dependancies).įrom that bunch, the following are out of the question because they are built in java. InstallBuilder knows how to deliver great support and when you're talking about something as important as your products installer, nothing less will do.I took a look at your Freshmeat URL and checked out all the Installer Builder apps. It's been a huge success with our customers and in reducing some of our support load HelpSpot installations on a Windows server are completed in minutes rather than hours. ![]() Through the development process they provided truly awesome customer service by being extremely responsive and delivering a high quality product. The team at InstallBuilder was able to put together a custom solution for us which not only allowed our users to install the standard WAMP stack but also optionally offered installing PHP with IIS and SQL Server. We wanted to alleviate this pain for our customers while giving them a more familiar Windows-like experience when installing HelpSpot. Unfortunately, getting PHP running-and hooked to Microsoft SQL Server - on Windows is tricky at best and left us spending a significant amount of time with our customers to get them up and running. HelpSpot, a PHP application, is generally a breeze to install on Linux or Unix.
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