[MonoDevelop] Addin Idea: Deploy as Windows Installer
Pascal Fresnay
pascalfresnay at free.fr
Fri Feb 23 04:19:00 EST 2007
Scott Ellington a écrit :
> I just had an idea for an addin:
>
> A Deployment option for deploying as a Windows Installer. This would
> wrap the application and all necessary dependencies into a distributable
> setup.exe installer for Windows.
>
> I don't know how feasible that is. It may be easier to create a .msi
> file, which is (kind of) an MS standard. Also, some kinds of installers
> only require scripts I believe.
>
> thoughts?
>
> Scott
>
Instead of creating an msi, monodevelop can generate a wix file, wich is
a XML document that describe application setup and can be compiled to an
msi on Windows. Should be more easy to implement in MonoDevelop ;)
Look at http://wix.sourceforge.net/
More information about the Monodevelop-list
mailing list