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  • Noah
    #1

    Need recommendations for installer setup tool

    I'm currently writing install/setup scripts in bash and Python
    for installing our product on UNIX servers. Our products depends
    on several packages that need to be configured, compiled, and installed.
    For example, we have an PHP product. The setup configures and installs
    the following: Apache, openssl, mod_ssl, pnglib, php. Most of these
    follow the standard "tar zxf, configure, make, make install"
    (except for libpng... grrr...). The setup script asks a few basic questions
    such as the root path for the install and some network information so
    that it can configure name and ip based virtual hosting in Apache.
    So each install script requires quite a bit of customization.
    It's not just simple matter of copying a bunch of files to /usr/local/bin.

    I would like something that could put a GUI on this process.
    Not that this would make it any easier to use, but it would make it
    easier to market :-P Ideally the installer would allow for both GUI and
    text based interfaces.

    Are there any Python based products that would help me build these installers?
    I'm trying to move away from the bash scripts and go with 100% pure Python.

    Could RedHat's Anaconda be what I want? Most of the info I've seen for
    it discusses how to use it to install Linux, not how to use it to build
    custom installers for your own products.

    Yours,
    Noah
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    • Robin Munn
      #2
      Re: Need recommendations for installer setup tool

      Noah <noah@noah.or g> wrote:[color=blue]
      > I would like something that could put a GUI on this process.
      > Not that this would make it any easier to use, but it would make it
      > easier to market :-P Ideally the installer would allow for both GUI and
      > text based interfaces.
      >
      > Are there any Python based products that would help me build these installers?
      > I'm trying to move away from the bash scripts and go with 100% pure Python.[/color]

      Have you looked at SCons? Between SCons and anygui, you might be able to
      put together a good solution pretty easily.

      --
      Robin Munn
      rmunn@pobox.com

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        • Noah
          #3
          Re: Need recommendations for installer setup tool

          Robin Munn <rmunn@pobox.co m> wrote in message news:<NmY6c.373 75$PY.8898@news svr26.news.prod igy.com>...[color=blue]
          > Noah <noah@noah.or g> wrote:[color=green]
          > > I would like something that could put a GUI on this process.
          > > Not that this would make it any easier to use, but it would make it
          > > easier to market :-P Ideally the installer would allow for both GUI and
          > > text based interfaces.
          > >
          > > Are there any Python based products that would help me build these installers?
          > > I'm trying to move away from the bash scripts and go with 100% pure Python.[/color]
          >
          > Have you looked at SCons? Between SCons and anygui, you might be able to
          > put together a good solution pretty easily.[/color]

          SCons looks great! At first glance it seem to be exactly what I was looking for.

          I thought that AnyGUI was a dead project. No?

          Yours,
          Noah

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