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This seems nice. In fact, this almost does what I've been doing for years through a script. The major functional difference between my script and your otherwise
by stinos 13y ago
This seems nice. In fact, this almost does what I've been doing for years through a script. The major functional difference between my script and your otherwise excellent idea is that I try to avoid installing anything. And that is possible for pretty much everything in your list.So please favour portable versions instead of installers. And if possible and only an installer is supplied, please check if you can't get the app anyway by simply unpacking the msi and getting the files out of it.
- userulluipeste 13y agoThat's OK whenever you can do that, but with databases and other such tools; deployment of which involves launching background services, installing logical drivers or some kind of convoluted configuration; it is a little difficult to have them created and maintained as portables.
- lucajona 13y agoI totally agree. Self-contained installs without side-effects are the goal for Scoop, and it's almost there. Scoop extracts NSIS/NullSoft and InnoSetup installers already, and if all goes well it'll extract MSI installers soon too (using lessmsi). If you're building your own package for Scoop and you just want to run the installer, there's good support for that too.