[lokisetup] FYI: InstallShield format...

Stephane Peter megastep at megastep.org
Fri Feb 27 16:58:19 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 13:54, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> InstallShield .cab files are just ZLIB?!
> 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/synce/unshield/README?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> 
> 
> We should write a loki_setup plugin for this so people don't need
> Ravage's Wine hack to make pretty installers for linux binaries, but I
> haven't looked into this at all.
> 
> --ryan.

Wow, that does sound like a good idea. If that unshield program is fully
functional, we can probably just inspire ourselves from their code to
write a similar plugin. It shouldn't be too hard to do...

-- 
Stephane Peter
Sr. Software Engineer
Codehost, Inc.





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