Re: The leanest, meanest Windows installer possible

Now that I think of it, shouldn't everything that is needed to build
the .MSI installer be in one of the source packages? As a user of
InnoSetup I'm afraid I'm clueless about MSI, so if someone could shove
me in the right direction I'd sure appreciate it!


> On 7/28/07, Mitchell Vincent <ksoftware@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all. I'm looking at distributing PostgreSQL with a desktop
> > application and have a couple of what might be simple questions.
> >
> > I've been using PG for years and years but bringing it to the Win32
> > desktop presents some deployment challenges. Since this software will
> > be downloaded I am looking for the smallest possible installer that
> > provides the functionality I'm looking for. Currently the whole
> > application (including the SQLite library that it's using now) is only
> > about 4 megs. The 20+ meg installer is awesome in it's functionality
> > but I won't be using most of what is contained in it (docs, language
> > drivers, etc). Is there a smaller "bare essentials" MSI installer that
> > provides an easy interface for setting things like the admin password
> > and the non-privileged service user addition but that contains only
> > the required EXEs and DLLs? Or perhaps a way for me to take the MSI
> > installer and strip out the things I won't be needing?
>


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