Comments on: Using Ant As An Installer http://www.symphonious.net/2006/06/07/using-ant-as-an-installer/ Living in a state of accord. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:07:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adrian Suttonhttp://www.symphonious.net/2006/06/07/using-ant-as-an-installer/comment-page-1/#comment-19903 Adrian Sutton Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:32:32 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2006/06/07/using-ant-as-an-installer/#comment-19903 Thanks Jan, we hadn't seen that one. It looks a lot more polished than the ones we did see. I'll check it out, though I'm still not sure Ant is a great choice for client side installers as it doesn't have simple ways to do things like add items to the start menu and provide uninstallers etc. For non-Windows platforms it might be good though, except that OS X users expect to not have an installer and linux/unix users are generally used to a plain old zip file. Thanks Jan, we hadn’t seen that one. It looks a lot more polished than the ones we did see.
I’ll check it out, though I’m still not sure Ant is a great choice for client side installers as it doesn’t have simple ways to do things like add items to the start menu and provide uninstallers etc. For non-Windows platforms it might be good though, except that OS X users expect to not have an installer and linux/unix users are generally used to a plain old zip file.

]]> By: Jan Maternehttp://www.symphonious.net/2006/06/07/using-ant-as-an-installer/comment-page-1/#comment-19872 Jan Materne Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:10:32 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2006/06/07/using-ant-as-an-installer/#comment-19872 I'm sure you know AntForms ;-) http://antforms.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Havent used that, but it promises a GUI for buildfiles - the stuff you need for your client installations..... Greetings from another musician (trumpet) Jan I’m sure you know AntForms ;-)
http://antforms.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

Havent used that, but it promises a GUI for buildfiles – the stuff you need for your client installations…..

Greetings from another musician (trumpet)
Jan

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