Re: [ros-dev] New Setup system

[Andrew Scott]

7-zip can be painfully slow to unpack on old computers.

Jerry wrote:
>   I'm thinking on working on a new setup system
> (just the installing 
>  files part).
>
>  Here are some of the details I'm thinking of (in no particular order):
>
>  1) 7-zip compression. 7-zip provides good compression ratios.
>  2)  xml based package information. This could include registry 
>  information needed by the application.
>  3) Third parties will be able to use it.
>  4) ability to download packages off of a network. ( (S)FTP HTTP or 
>  Samba )
>  5) self installing packages.
>  6) auto compile from source and install.
>  7) dependencies.
>  8) auto update from the net (not sure about this one).
>
>  If you have any other ideas please add them.
>
>  If anybody is interested in it, please tell me, and I'll plan to start 
>  working on it one to two weeks from now.
>
>
>  David Hinz wrote:
>
> >  
> >  Alex Ionescu schrieb:
> >
> > >   Sounds a lot like the new Vista AIK and the
> > > XIMAGE system Microsoft 
> > >  is working on. Not saying that's a bad thing, on the contrary, but 
> > >  why re-invent the wheel? We could just use their tools. 
> >
> >  And exactly that is what it's not. I've been looking a lot at the new 
> >  Vista deployment tools and ximage in the last two weeks, and the 
> >  difference is, that MS creates a file based image of the whole system 
> >  partition, copies it onto the harddisk and starts the setup, and what 
> >  I described is a bit more like the debian installer, everything is in 
> >  packages, that depend on other packages (or not) and each of them has 
> >  it's own configuration.
> >  This is much more customizable and flexible than Microsofts ximage.
> >
> >  You can create one cd for the whole company, but when you have 
> >  installed ReactOS you just have to connect to the repository server 
> >  and select the repositories you need for this workstation. You will 
> >  never ever have to touch this workstaion again, it will be 
> >  automatically updated with exactly the things needed on this 
> >  workstation.
> >
> >  Keep in mind, my idea is not to make the installation as fast as 
> >  possible and to waste as less space on the installation medias as 
> >  possible, I want to make the administrators job a bit easier.
> >
> >  Plus this has positive effects for home users too, as we have a 
> >  system wide update manager and not one for every vendor.
> >
> > >   Best regards,
> > >  Alex Ionescu 
> >
> >  Greets,
> >
> >  David Hinz
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