[gephi-dev] Windows installer creation

[Keheliya Gallaba]

Hi Devs,

After a long time. I'm trying to figure out the current build process
of gephi, so you will see lot of questions from me here in the coming
days. :-) For a start, I thought to explore Windows installer creation
process.

These are the steps involved, as I understood from gephi-0.8.iss

Getting input for Destination Directory and Group Name.
Getting input for shortcut creation and file associations.
Copying files to destination directory
Creating short cuts & launchers
Modifying Registry values (Please explain to me what is been done here
except setting file associations.)
Deleting already existing config files.

Please add if I missed any. I would like to know are there any
specific reasons for specifically selecting 'InnoSetup'. I just asked
cz I found a cross platform solution IzPack[1] which creates Windows &
MacOSX application bundles directly from jars.

BTW I have added my GSoC proposal to a wikipage here[2]. Please let me
know your suggestions about my approach.

Thanks & Regards,
Keheliya

[1] http://izpack.org/features/
[2] http://wiki.gephi.org/index.php/Specification_-_GSoC_Automated_Build_%26_Maven
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Keheliya Gallaba
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka
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