Hi,
On 8/6/07, Neil Mitchell
I found wix annoying, and chose to use InnoSetup instead, following on from Duncan's use of it in Gtk2hs. Inno can't do .msi's.
I chose Wix because I wanted to understand Wix and MSI's structure better.
I'll try to publish the darcs repo somewhere if there's interest.
If there was some way to get Hugs and GHC installers out of it, possibly with a fake cabal file or something, that would be lovely! Perhaps a System.Installer.Wix library that all could use?
I doubt compiler installers can be generated so easily. Btw, cabal2wix doesn't really need .cabal file for anything - it just reads what setup copy --destdir=dist\cabal2wix generates, and build configs. Library isn't my target for now, at least. On that scale, it might also be nicer to generate msi's directly, rather than generating xml.
My tentative proposal: Use HKLM if "all users" install, HKCU otherwise. Use \Software\Haskell\COMPILER\VERSION\InstallDir for storing path to base location of installed compiler. (i.e. it shouldn't point to bin-directory.)
Agreed.
Oops. I think it's already doing almost that, I just read my registry extract wrong.
Small issues: * License file is not installed.
On Windows, I doubt anyone cares :-)
I do. And I need the file for license agreement dialog :-) Best regards, --Esa