InstallJammer is a multi-platform GUI installer written in Tcl/Tk and designed to work on Windows, Mac and virtually any flavor of UNIX / Linux.
Current release is 1.0b1, Feb 12th, 2006.
It features:
Mailing List:
mailto:[email protected] (Subscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/installjammer-devel )
Downloads are available on SourceForge at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148203
Documentation is online at:
http://www.installjammer.com/docs/
[ Location: http://www.installjammer.com/
Author: Damon Courtney ]
Kevin Walzer InstallJammer is a very nice tool, with a shallow learning curve. I've used it for the Windows and Linux versions of iReveal. As far as I know, it is unique among open-source install tools in supporting both Windows and Linux.
APN Windows Inspection Tool Set is planning on using InstallJammer. I checked out other open source installers as well - WiX[L1 ], INNO[L2 ] and NSIS[L3 ] (I'm only interested in Windows). WiX was the only other one in serious contention. It is more tightly integrated with Windows (no surprise given it comes from Microsoft) and has a lot of ongoing support and a large user community. I went with InstallJammer because (a) it is much easier to get started with, (b) is Tcl based, and (c) all other things being equal, might as well pick a cross-platform tool. As Kevin said, it is a very nice tool.
escargo 17 Mar 2006 - I was able to identify information about WiX and Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS), but I couldn't find anything useful about INSO. Do you have a link for it? APN Sorry, that should have been INNO, not INSO. I added a link as well.
APN Some questions/issues with InstallJammer (this is all on Windows): * Comments in italics added by Damon Courtney
As an aside, where is the code for the install runtime? I could not find it in the InstallJammer directory. I wanted to see if I could fix up some of the above issues. The runtime for an installer is built from its theme and several pieces of the core procs. Mostly, it comes from the theme files + common.tcl + install.tcl. That's the bulk of it anyway.
amk Apologies, not quite sure where else to ask this, but is there anything like a mailing list for InstallJammer? I've just moved over from InstallBase and I'm having an interesting time rebuilding the functionality of my old installers. I figured I'd best not spam the wiki with my questions. :)
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