[mkgmap-dev] ANNOUNCE: Free Garmin MapSource installer available

Sat Sep 19 14:58:46 BST 2009

For sure I wil try it out. ;-)

Thanks for doing this work.

Marco

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason schrieb:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:21 PM, dom Team OiD <dom at team-oid.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm sure such a tool is really cool stuff. I already experimented with
>> easy installer, whcih is creating msi packaes for windows.
>> I didn't use your installer, so this question comes up.
>> What is the benefit of your installer compared to any other like install
>> shield or easy installer? Has it special Mapsource features?
>>     
>
> I wrote it because I wanted something which I could compile/bundle in
> an automated fashion on Linux and wasn't huge.
>
> I played with the MSI tools briefly but couldn't see how I could get
> those features.
>
> But as it turns out the nullsoft scriptable install system has those
> features: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
>
> That's what Lambertus is using to create his MapSource installers:
>
>     http://garmin.na1400.info/
>
> Using the NSIS is better than the ad-hoc program I've written. I just
> wrote it because I thought there wasn't anything else I could use.
>
> So /ANNOUNCEMENT I guess :)
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