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Bug ID: 4353300
Votes 1
Synopsis Improved Installer
Category javawebstart:other
Reported Against jaws-0.9-ea
Release Fixed 1.0.1
State 11-Closed, Verified, request for enhancement
Priority: 2-High
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Submit Date 14-JUL-2000
Description
Placeholder for what we want to do with the installer. Might need
better installer for Solaris and Linux, as well as Windows.
Work Around
N/A
Evaluation
Well, we didn't do anything for Linux or Solaris but the Nullsoft installer
is IN for Windows.  The #1 thing about Nullsoft is the small install header
size - Nullsoft only adds about 50k to the I18N Java Web Start (less for
US-only) and has a pretty good feature set for such a small size.

Nullsoft uses .nsi script files to build installers.  The nullsoft source has
been modified from a free distribution from Nullsoft, Inc to accomadate
JavaWS install requirements (internationalization was the big one).

The Nullsoft source is in src/win32/nsis.  exehead is the executable header,
which is built and then appended with a data block by the built makenssi,
which is the script compiler.

- xxxxx@xxxxx  2001-02-23
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