The simplest solution is to install Csound somewhere, zip up everything in the installation directory, maybe add a batch file that runs Csound with the right OPCODEDIR, and upload the zip file to SourceForge.

I'm not dying to do this myself, frankly. Thanks to the loss of my C drive, the installers have pretty much taken over my life for the past little while. I expect there may be other directly installer-related issues that I may have to deal with as well.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Yi 
>Sent: Sep 24, 2008 12:22 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Version 5.09 released
>
>Hi Michael,
>
>One thing to note is that I don't think this is an either-or option,
>and that Stephane may be implying the same, that we might have two
>distributables, one the installer and the second one a zip.  The
>important thing is that if we do a zip, we should have the zip contain
>the same files that were built and packaged with the installer, so
>that if there is a problem that both have the problem so we're in
>sync.
>
>It seems a shell script could be run after building the installer to
>copy the generated files to an appropriate directory structure and
>then zip that up.  I'm not sure however what files are necessary and
>how they should be organized.
>
>steven
>
>On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Michael Gogins  wrote:
>> Examine csound-build.tex, and you will see what it takes to put this installer together. It can't be scripted because not everything works, some steps have to be done twice, and so on. So manual checks have to be done at various steps in the process. Oh yes, and what works and what does not work keeps changing.
>>
>> Replacing the installer altogether with a zip file is in fact an appealing option, but then newbies would not get a Start Menu with csound5gui and the manuals on it. The whole purpose of the installer is to enable a no-brains startup.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Stéphane Rollandin 
>>>Sent: Sep 24, 2008 4:28 AM
>>>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Version 5.09 released
>>>
>>>Michael Gogins a écrit :
>>>> It could also be an option in the installer to set, or not, these environment variables. Would that solve your problem?
>>>
>>>I would not launch an installer in my main system unless I'me 100% sure
>>>  it will not mess up with my settings, so to me such an option would
>>>not change anything. but it could be useful to others.
>>>
>>>I don't want to be dense, but here is the question I would like an
>>>answer to: why not provide a plain extra zip distribution along with the
>>>installer ? why is that a problem for you ? shouldn't it be as simple as
>>>launching one more script in your packaging process ? I don't understand.
>>>
>>>
>>>best regards,
>>>
>>>Stef
>>>
>>>
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