[jawsscripts] Re: Scripts Installers
- From: "Dang Manh Cuong" <dangmanhcuong@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:50:59 +0700
Hi
For me, I use JS install from accessible program with Inno setup.
It give a script with file size over 300kb, but if you just want to do a
simple package, then you should use it because you can create your installer
usign the wizard.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Snowbarger" <snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 3:39 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripts Installers
> Yep, that is the problem I am running into. There seems to be a need to
> dig pretty deep into other obscure mechanisms in order to simply package a
> set of jaws scritps. I certainly do feel a need for a simpler approach.
>
> I think one might want to go back as far as XP. I hear from people all
> the time who are sticking with it for as long as they can get bye with it.
> All later Windows versions seem to present us with UI quirks that folks
> would rather not hassle with if they had a choice.
> And, it would be good if such an installer gave you the option to include
> binaries, and to only recompile the jss files that are provided.
> One last thing is the ability to register a DLL.
>
> Since I speak English, my opinion would be that english only would suffice
> for now.
>
> I have some questions about localization, coming under separate thread.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean Farrow
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 2:36 AM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripts Installers
>
> Hi,
> The other alternative is WiX from:
> Http://www.wixtoolset.org/
> This is an xml-based msi (Windows installer) creation tool.
>
> The problems with the nsis installers currently are that it doesn't
> support compiling scripts on the fly, finds two many directories as I
> recall and doesn't support additional languages.
>
> I looked in to the effort required in creating something with WiX a while
> back, we would need to create some form of packager as this does get
> pretty involved, essentially copying xml fragments for each jaws version.
> If I were to reserect this effort in the new year, what would be the
> minimum operating system people would want? Also would people want
> multiple languages, or would just English suffice for now? Would people be
> interested in this being an open-source project on say GitHub? Also would
> a web-based packaging service be appropriate or would people want to
> package locally?
> Thoughts appreciated.
> Kind regards
> Sean.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Huey
> Sent: 29 December 2014 03:17
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripts Installers
>
> I dunno, NSIS may be the best choice there is. It's comparable all the way
> back to windows xp, is open source, and supports a form of modular
> component plugin functionality which could (theoretically) enable code for
> finding required JAWS versioning details. It's also a package installer,
> and can support custom front end design to produce something clean up
> front. Maybe the biggest boon would be to just design a packagER (emphasis
> on the E-R there) for use with NSIS to wrap the arbitrary JAWS script sets
> into the installer to make it easy to do.
>
>
>
>> On Dec 28, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Jim Snowbarger <Snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys, Hope your having a nice holiday.
>> So, where do we stand on general purpose jaws script installers these
>> days?
>> I have the idea that JSX is out of date, and that it will not be
>> further maintained.
>> I have NSIS, but it is pretty complicated, and probably more than one
>> would need.
>> Is there one that will handle all the myriad OS's and jaws versions?
>> Any recommendations?
>>
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