Re: [Boost-build] Future development

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-05 23:05:05

on Fri Oct 05 2007, Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Daniel Wallin wrote:
>
>> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>>> some things that BBv2 can't do (my favorite: graphical installers),
>>
>> Can it create graphical installers that are actually useful to us? For
>> example, can the installer download the binaries one by one rather  
>> than
>> including all of them in the exe?
>
> I don't recall seeing this feature, but I don't know for certain.
>
>> If not, there's very little that indicate this would be any easier  
>> to do
>> with CMake than with BBv2. It's not like it's impossible, or even very
>> hard, to output and build NSIS code.
>
> Well, except that CMake builds installers for many kinds of platforms  
> already. The incremental cost of adding the feature you mention to  
> CMake/CPack (assuming it isn't there) is far less than the cost of  
> extending BBv2 with support for NSIS, Mac OS X packages, RPMs, Debian  
> packages, etc.

It's a feature of NSIS, so it's probably already acheivable through
Cmake.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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