| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 05:13:32 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: AmiPak |
The current plan is not to have an integrated installer. There will be an
example that people can use if they want to, but the format is open enough to
let anyone write their own.
One more thing to mention- AmiPak will exist on the AmigaVP as both
a stand-alone executable and a set of secondary tools that other apps can call.
-Pat
Jesse McClusky wrote:
>
> > From: "David Trollope" <dave.trollope@worldnet.att.net>
> >
> <snip>
> > I would like to take this topic one step further, and suggest that an
> installer is
> > provided also. The installer can read the chosen archive format and
> install
> > the files in the right place on the system, checking version numbers etc.
> Of
> > course this would require a standard versioning technique also. These are
> > all things the classic had and should be carried over. (Except the
> > installer reading the archive itself...)
>
> Way ahead of ya, buddy. (:
>
> Personal opinion though; archive format details shouldn't be hard coded
> into *any* installer. It should be able to make use of whatever archiver
> achieves the best compression for that patch set. Especially if that
> installer is also integrated with an auto-update-like feature, among other
> things....
>
> *whistles innocently*
>
> > One should also be careful of compression copyright infringements.... It
> > gets ugly...
>
> Which is why it should be independent of all compression.
>
> On a (barely-)related note, everyone knows that the RSA patent
> expires on Sept 20th, don't they? (:
>
> Jesse
>
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