[DUG] Installers

[James Sugrue]

Have you looked at Inno 5? It has the ability to place custom code at any
point. It allows you to write code in Pascal Script to do just about
anything.

I have some code that installs the BDE, and creates some directories and
aliases etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of John Bird
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 10:20 AM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: [DUG] Installers

Up to now I have been using the Inno Setup 4 installer, its pretty simple
and powerful.  (And written in Delphi)
The only thing it doesn't do that I would like is to be able to archive/zip
up older programs before I install an update (which gives a fall back if
there is a problem with an updated program).  Ie it doesn't offer actions
that can be done before the programs are installed other than creating
directories..

I noticed that the latest Firefox V2 beta 2 (which looks like a really
terrific version btw) now uses the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System which
looks really good too...

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Features

What do others use?
Being a single developer I don't really want to pay for high end ones if
free ones do what I want...


John

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