On 6/14/06, Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> wrote:
> Herb Martin writes:
>
> > Ideally, this would be one installer in an MSI file, with perhaps
> > an Exe as optional. Done as an MSI it can be deployed with
> > Group Policy or other automated tools to many machines
> > easily.
> >
>
> I worry that Windows Installer packaging is not planned
> at least now. Do you know any free tool for making .msi
> packages?
Vadim,
WiX [1], an Open Source project, may be of interest:
"The Windows Installer XML toolset (WiX), pronounced "wicks", is a
free, open-source toolset that builds Windows Installer (MSI) packages
from an XML document. It supports a command-line environment that
developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and
MSM setup packages. This software is released by Microsoft under an
open-source license called Common Public License [2]."
Regards,
Jean-Marc
1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX