Re: [ros-dev] New Setup system

[Jerry]

I could add diferent compression formats, like tgz, zip, bz2 to the 
installer.

Andrew Scott wrote:
> 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):
> > 7-zip compression. 7-zip provides good compression ratios.
> > 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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