Re: Cross-platform installer package?
Lionel wrote:
slippymississippi@yahoo.com wrote:
Steven J. Sobol wrote:
In article <1157141613.074287.217600@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, slippymississippi@yahoo.com wrote:
Does anyone know of a cross-platform installer package?
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Does the definition 'cross-platform' usually include Mac's?
(I say it does)
InstallJammer homepage..
"InstallJammer is a multiplatform GUI installer designed to be
completely cross-platform and function on Windows and most
all versions of UNIX with eventual support for Mac OS X."
IJ is not X-plat.
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This is incredible. Thanks!
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LOL, I actually found this post via a google and came pack to respond to
an old post I made asking people about cross-platform installers. I am
now using InstallJammer and it is excellent. While I'm sure JWS is a
good option it must first be installed and I don't think that is a
reasonable assumption.
Possibly not. But then, JWS comes with any (modern) JRE.
What does IJ offer when no suitable JRE is found?
<http://www.installjammer.com/docs/index.html?LocateJavaRuntime>
...which ends with an option to 'Prompt User'.
JWS has a simple little web-page to check for WebStart availability
and prompt installation. As I understand it, the JRE can come from
the 'same disk as the web-page' (better for off-line install) - or from
Sun.
Andrew T.
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