From: "Ralf Müller" <r_mueller@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T17:35:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [proto] dea installer, your opinions

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 16:32:23 +0900
dave <dave.m@email.it> wrote:

> 
> Hy,
> 
> I'm developing a technology to install programs under Linux and Windows
> using Qt and Ruby. 
> 
> Here is the basic idea http://realm.ath.cx/prj/dea-proto-setup.rb.
> 
> As attachment there is the component diagram.
> 
> I would like to know you opinions and suggestments.
> 
> Thank you.

Nice idea to use a gui! 
But for installation, you have to know the structure of the tarball and this is
REALLY hard to know. So you have to make assumptions about the tarballs an this
will lead you to restrictions of WHAT your program is able to install.

all this is allready done by gem. So I think the easiest way would be to create
a gui for gem and eventually extend gem as you like it.