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Tuesday, April 10. 2007

Do you remember back in school when you learned stuff you certainly would not need anymore in your future life? I thought the same thing when we programmed things in Delphi (those things actually were quite interesting, though). After Phil poked me once again yesterday, I finally decided to fix long-standing bug #145. So, guess what, the setup system we use (InnoSetup) is not only written in Delphi but also allows custom Pascal Code to be executed during setup. So this is what I came up with, and it would certainly have taken me some more hours if I did not know Delphi before.

I wonder however whether I will have to use Java for some real-world application one day. I would be nearly as good prepared as I was for the Delphi task.

Posted by Armin Burgmeier in Gobby at 15:22 | Comments (3) | Trackback (1)

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Glom Windows Installer
Here it is, Glom's installer for Windows. Thanks to the opinions to my last blog entry. I set up an all-in-one installer, so Glom should run out of the box after installing (please tell me if not). It includes GTK+ from SVN with my patch from bug #506062

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Cute, my career as a programmer started with Pascal and after that Delphi 2.0 too.

I even continued with Dephi 3.0, but at its 4.0 release I got seduced by the Linux communities.

And therefore, by the C programming language.

#1 Philip Van Hoof (Homepage) on 2007-04-10 15:52 (Reply)

Doing like inkscape and including a copy of GTK would be a lot easier for most users than needing to worry about having and detecting GTK. (Users can always delete the copy included with Inkscape and fall back to the system GTK (for testing and general use it is more reliable to have a known version of GTK). I think GIMP might even be starting to ship a bundle including GTK too.

In any case I am much more interested by your choice of Inno Setup over NSIS which is used by quite a few open source projects. Were you already more familiar with Inno or does it offer particular benefits over NSIS?

My experience with Pascal only amounts to many hundreds of hours of Mathematica (software from Wolfram). I really should give it a try for a more enjoyable task.

#2 Alan (Homepage) on 2007-04-11 16:09 (Reply)

I don't think bundling GTK+ (and gtkmm) is a good idea. It is duplication and I would like to avoid duplication if possible. I would like to encourage people to not having multiple identical GTK+ installations. Complains about GTK+ on Windows nearly disappeared recently, anyway.

There is no big reason why we chose Inno Setup. It was just the first thing Google came up with and had enough documentation to quickly hack an installer together.

#2.1 Armin Burgmeier (Homepage) on 2007-04-12 20:12 (Reply)

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