[Tutor] Installation Routines (Joseph Quigley)

R. Alan Monroe amonroe at columbus.rr.com
Tue Apr 19 03:07:52 CEST 2005


> He told me that it
> was for writing an installation program for Windows and that he considered 
> python and Tkinter as an option.
> I know there are installers written in python for Linux. I suppose they are 
> easier to write, than one for Windows?

> Now, I'm still new, and can't do GUI yet, but I was wondering.... how hard 
> would it be to write a simple installer for windows? None of that fancy INI 
> and registry crapp, just a very simple file copier to, oh lets say, My 
> Documents?

> This isn't a waste of your or my time is it?

It's pefectly doable, but with the existence of Innosetup and NSIS,
personally I wouldn't really feel like it was worth it. Just my
opinion, though.

Alan



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