InstallJammer is a multi-platform GUI installer written in Tcl/Tk and designed to work on Windows, OS X and virtually any flavor of UNIX / Linux. OS X is not currently supported but is slated for later release.
Current release is 1.0.1, July 5th, 2006.
It features:
Mailing List:
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. 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.
Summer 2006: "the german linux magazine had an article about installers for linux featuring InstallJammer, and quoted it as 'first of its breed' at least for the open source sector, there seem to be some commercial offerings . . . they mention two commercial alternatives Bitrock installer[L4 ] and Plaasoft installer[L5 ]"
The article is in Issue 08/2006 p.126-128.
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