[Gambas-user] Gambas self-extracting installer (4)

[Benoît Minisini]

Hi,

I tested and found that using an embedded web application is as 
difficult as using a normal installer, so... let's back to an installer 
based on gb.qt4!

But I don't think it's a good idea to ask for the root or sudo password 
to installed Gambas package, for security reasons (can you really trust 
that self-extracting installer?)

Instead, I think I will just tell the user which packages he must 
install himself before being able to complete the installation.

Moreover, I will try to provide the installed program with all needed 
Gambas components inside. So, provided that the dependencies of these 
components are already installed, nothing will need to be installed.

In other words, the idea is the following:

1) The self-extracting installer has all Gambas components needed by the 
project inside.

2) He will try to load each component one by one.

3) As soon as one fails, it usually means that a package is missing.

4) Tells the user which packages he must install.

5) Or just go on and install the program.

If the user decide to install the Gambas components from the binary 
packages later, maybe I should use them instead of the embedded ones. Or 
maybe I shouldn't? Or maybe this decision is up to the package creator?

For security reasons, maybe this packager should be able to install the 
program locally only. For global programs, a normal binary package must 
be made.

What do you think? Should that packager install the program globally if 
run by root (for example)?

Waiting for your remarks... :-)

-- 
Benoît Minisini