Installer / Package
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Installer / Package
I want to make an installer / package that installs a bunch of apps together .....
I use to make my own setups with setup2go is there any such program compatible with reacOs ?
I use to make my own setups with setup2go is there any such program compatible with reacOs ?
I'd suggest adding some games to the packmgr that works good with ROS like the demos of Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex and Quake (1, I'm not sure if 2 works), ScummVM (with Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen and maybe some demos) and maybe DOSBox with some DOS demo games. OpenTTD requires the original game data I think. I don't know any other games that works.
Two things of note. One, since ReactOS is trying to be Windows compliant, there isn't any need to actually add game demos into the packmgr. You could just as easily go download the installer and install it yourself.
Second, if you mean include the demos in the packmgr on the net and not directly on the CD, and even if you meant putting them onto the CD, you would need to check if the demos permit redistributing. Some do, but that is absolutely no guarantee all do.
Oh and I guess a third point is, adding them onto a CD will only make the CD bigger, which most of us don't want to deal with.
Second, if you mean include the demos in the packmgr on the net and not directly on the CD, and even if you meant putting them onto the CD, you would need to check if the demos permit redistributing. Some do, but that is absolutely no guarantee all do.
Oh and I guess a third point is, adding them onto a CD will only make the CD bigger, which most of us don't want to deal with.
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You are correct the packagemanager installs applications from the internet.(no need to scour the net or surf to sites) They should be all open source but the DO NOT have to be. It will make it alot easier to maintain than having a repository. But if the package owners site goes down or they stop maintaining it you wont be able to get it from the packagemanager which is where repos come in handy. Maybe a hybrid system would be apt where certain or all apps can be gotten from repos and from the net if one should fail the other will work
The general issue is whether ReactOS would host said package. That's what I meant about distributing. And there's even whether sites allow direct linking. Some get annoyed with that. Providing it's not an open source software, you need to check to make sure you can distribute it, or if not, whoever hosts it allows direct linking.
...or GPL-compatible software.walter wrote:i think we should include ONLY open source gpled software.
I started to update my Untested (open source) software list into Open source software list, that features "graphical license-compatibility" (based on this document) and description. 8)
I already asked - by PM - frik85 (the compatibility database developer) to add this kind of feature to it, but no reply since now.
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