have a win32 installer as .msi package

[theAdib]

This would help to integrate inkscape into Windows
domain software distribution systems.
There are some free tols available:
- http://wix.sourceforge.net/
- http://users.cyberone.com.au/dbareis/makemsi.htm
And a reference to the bugtracker of the scribus system
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=3827

Adib.

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

Please make this in addition to the current Windows
installer, otherwise this would have a negative effect on
some Windows users, including me.

While the department where I work currently uses Inkscape,
the company's IT department has all PCs configured to
disable MSI and refuses to support any non-Microsoft
software. Departments are allowed to install other apps, can
only do so if the app uses an .EXE installer file.

We, the users, like Inkscape a lot. Thank you.

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

Patches welcome.
Inkscape would welcome more developers providing a variety
of different kinds of installers to suit other special needs.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Win32_Installer#new_feature_request_will_cause_complete_rework

I cannot seem to access the inkscape-devel mailing list
archivers at the minute but the message was cross posted to
the scribus list so here is a reference
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2006-August/019705.html

> has all PCs configured to disable MSI

pretty lame what people consider "security"

Given that NSIS is used by the very popular PortableApps.com
I am sure there will be enough demand to keep the NSIS
version around.

[theAdib (theadib)]

I have evaluated wix and wix-edit and I think I can create a simple installer.
I do not know how to make one installer that contains multiple lanuages instead of one installer_en and installer_de etc.
Help welcome. Adib.

[will_in_wi (will-in-wi)]

Is there any movement on this? I am the IT Director at a school, and I would love to offer this software to our students, but I do not have the time to walk to every workstation and run the installer. We use group policy deployment with msi for just about everything else.

[theAdib (theadib)]

Hello will_in_wi, there is currently no development in this direction. :-(
Do you know a tool to create those msi packes? Any experience? Do you have any requirements on such an msi installer (admin/user mode, links on desktop, etc)?
Thanks, Adib.

[will_in_wi (will-in-wi)]

I have very little experience in creating msi installers, perhaps if I get some free time I will look at it.

Thanks!

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@theAdib - what is the current status of the msi installer scripts in current trunk, 'In Progress' or 'Fix Committed'?

See also:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39376>
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39393>
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39417/focus=39421>

<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/files/head:/packaging/wix/>

[theAdib (theadib)]

@suv sorry for delayed answer.

At the moment a basic featureset is implemented: selecting location,
selecting different content.
I have not tested silent install. And Win7 install where you have admin
rights (I only have win7 with no admin rights- it asks me for UAC)
Currently you can not select individual translations and the installer is
only in english.

I would like to have (more) feedback. The snapshots are available via
http://www.oss-marketplace.com/index.php/downloads-mainmenu-63/Inkscape/Entwicklerversionen/

Adib.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:15 PM, ~suv <email address hidden> wrote:

> @theAdib - what is the current status of the msi installer scripts in
> current trunk, 'In Progress' or 'Fix Committed'?
>
> See also:
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39376>
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39393>
> <
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39417/focus=39421
> >
>
> <
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/files/head:/packaging/wix/
> >
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Status: Triaged => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Milestone: None => 0.49
>
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[theAdib (theadib)]

msi installer delivered in 0.91 release