We're very interested in having a cross-platform installer. Not only would our installer be cross-platform (with different files for different platforms), it would also be multilingual (with different files for different languages) and multi-version (different licenses installing different files).
I know installanywhere 2010 could do this. My concern is that the resulting installer (*.exe) would be very big. Given that the installer would be downloaded from our website, this could be a problem for us.
What I was wondering was whether the merge modules can be set up to be independent from the main installer exe and downloadable on demand. What I would like to be able to do is create an exe with some files common to all versions and then have the other files downloadable from our website. In this way the installer exe would not be so big but would be capable of installing any of the variants onto our client's machines.
How big is big (I mean how big is currently your installer?) Nowadays, bandwith and diskspace are cheap. I've also seen some really big installers, like for instance the latest versions of VmWare Workstation, which are 500 MB. Is your installer bigger than that?
pv7721 wrote: How big is big (I mean how big is currently your installer?) Nowadays, bandwith and diskspace are cheap. I've also seen some really big installers, like for instance the latest versions of VmWare Workstation, which are 500 MB. Is your installer bigger than that?
Thanks for your reply. At the moment, our main installer (we have smaller ones we want to incorporate) is about 30MB. The story is that we have 24 of them, making a total of 720MB (this is not including the smaller installers).
Do you know of a way to dynamically download modules from the web using installanywhere 2010?
