[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#2674) Freeciv Setup.

["John Tomlinson via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, we'll do this in order.
I'm unaware of any restrictions on distribution due to whatever was used 
to package a given program...
But I'm not a lawyer. I Just do stuff. As far as sources goes, I am 
going to for the moment assume you mean
the source script used to create the .exe setup bundle. Sure. I always 
save these things. Lesee.... Ergh.
Unreadable by any tool other than it's creator. And anyway, I like the 
idea of using a free tool as well.
I can still send the mindvision source .vct (The script it uses to 
generate the package is saved as a .vct)
if you care to see it. But it's pretty damn basic. All I was basically 
asked for was something that a guy
could simply click, and at the end, that makes a shortcut in 
desktop/start menu for it, that worked.
I Had briefly, mischeviously, pondered creating a monstrous thing that 
included a cygwin system that
would be used to compile a fresh copy for each machine. Then I came to 
my senses.... All they wanted
was for it to be simple and work. This can be accomplished in many many 
many different ways.
Plus, by 'Free Tool' You mean freeware and/or open source? Not 
shareware? Which drops out
90% of what's availiable. And I'm hardly familiar with them all. So, 
Inno appears to be free,
unless you guys have a different reccomendation. It doesn't appear to 
require anything that can't
be accomplished with even a batch file, anyway. I can redo it in  Inno. NP.
Just let me know if you want me to even continue to bother,
seeing as Andreas appears to have it covered already. Email me back if 
you do.
Meantime I'll play with inno. And the other Win32 versions of Freeciv, 
because I haven't even
touched the X-Enabled Win32 ones. Don't even have a clue as to how to 
set that up, and as you
said, you'd want one for each version.
Happy New Year!
                      John Tomlinson

Andreas Kemnade via RT wrote:

>Todd Goodman via RT writes:
> > Do you (or anyone) know if there are any restrictions on distributing
> > executables created with your installation tool?
> > 
> > I'd be happy to set up the link to it once you've uploaded it to
> > ftp://upload.freeciv.org.
> > 
> > Please send me the filename and version (and whether it includes sound
> > support or not) once it's uploaded.
> > 
> > And I think it would be much appreciated if you supplied the self
> > extracting package for each release.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Todd Goodman
>There is a self extracting package for 1.14.0-beta3
>
> ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/windows/freeciv-1.14.0-beta3.exe
>
>
>create-freeciv-iss.sh is a bash script in the same directory which
>creates a script which is readable by InnoSetup
>
>If there are self-extracting executables, I want to see some kind of
>source. The setup binary should be created by a free tool.
>
>Greetings
>Andreas Kemnade
>
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