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BOINC / boinc

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu
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Move installer from InstallShield to NSIS #3194

Closed AenBleidd closed 1 year ago

AenBleidd commented 5 years ago

Currently BOINC uses InstallShield to create a installer. It is not free and rather expensive. I suggest to move away from it and use NSIS instead ( https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page ). It is free and easy to use. I played a little bit with it and found it very easy. I can create test installer next week or so. If we consider to use it we should also rewrite boinccas dll that is built with VS2010 now and I found no way to build it with newer versions of VS because of OLE dll usage that is used to communicate with InstallShield installer. So we will need either to rewrite this library on NSIS script language or just clean up existing library from all InstalShield references. Also moving to NSIS will give us an opportunity to extend existing functionality of installer that is requested by users. Any thoughts? I'd like to discuss this on the upcoming Contributions call 6/27/19.

adamradocz commented 4 years ago

@AenBleidd, do you have a WIP version?

AenBleidd commented 4 years ago

Yes

adamradocz commented 4 years ago

Upload it please, if I have time, I'll try to contribute or at least give my 2 cents. :)

AenBleidd commented 4 years ago

Ok, I need to polish it then because currently it's not ready to be shown to anyone😜

AenBleidd commented 1 year ago

NSIS might not be the best choice for BOINC. It's required to do a comparison of available toolsets to choose one that will fir BOINC the best. Closing this in favor of #5065