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Re^2: OT Windows Installersby jdtoronto (Prior) |
on Sep 29, 2004 at 19:03 UTC ( [id://395103]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
dragonchild
Excelent question! I develop using ActiveState ( I have Komodo-Pro ) and I package with PerlApp right now, but I have also used PAR successfully on the same project. The application is pure-Perl/Tk which uses MySQL. I have about 385mb of data which right now I ship as a directory on the CD-ROM which the user has to copy into the \mysql\data\ directory during the installation process. Currently I distribute a MySQL installer pacakge on the CD with my software. But their is no attempt at automation at all! I have no real idea where to start. It seems that the average Windows user does not know how to get to a command prompt, let alone what to do with it when he finds it. We did a conference call last night with about 50 purcahsers and they were able to install the product, but only with the help of four pages of documentation for a simple job with only about 10 command line actions. I can reduce that to three with a .bat file, but even so, I don't want to spend my life on conference calls, particularly when it looks like my client could sell a thousand of these without any difficulty in the next couple of weeks!
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