Cross-platform installer?

gosu / releasy

A rake task generator to help with building/packaging/deploying Ruby applications (⚠️ unmaintained)

https://spooner.github.com/libraries/releasy/

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Cross-platform installer? #18

Open bil-bas opened 12 years ago

bil-bas commented 12 years ago

Innosetup is fine, but a cross-platform installer would be grand, especially if it handled updates!

jlnr commented 12 years ago

I think this one is shooting too high. I don't know any software that actually has a cross-platform installer, and most Mac apps just come as a packaged .app these days. The Mac App Store makes this even more obvious.

But, if you want to handle updates, the preferred non-App-Store solution on the Mac would be http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/.

bil-bas commented 12 years ago

Not so much an installer that is cross-platform as one that allows installers to be created on any platform. As far as I could see, however, the systems that do that are all commercial, so untenable.