[ptx] New, easier Hugin installer

[Marek Januszewski]

douglas wilkins napisał(a):

>>I thought that there must be an easier way.
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>>All of the tools are freely downloadable, so I have
>>made an installer 
>>that includes them all.  It sets up the registry
>>settings correctly, 
>>assigning the .pto and .oto file extensions to the
>>correct applications, 
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I think file associations are being set correctly by current installer

>>as well as the settings required for hugin to find
>>all of its backend 
>>applications.  It puts pano12.dll in the correct
>>system folder.
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that's also stuff that can be done in current installer - there's really 
no need to switch to innosetup
Personally I would like the pano12.dll to be in the same folder as hugin 
(%PROGRAMFILES%\hugin) rather than system folder. Some people don't use 
it for other stuiff, other people may need different 
versions/compilations of pano12.dll, so I guess system folder wouldn't 
be suitable place to store all of the versions. But that's me personally

>>Anyway, comments/criticisms/bug reports are welcome.
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>The nsi file that we use (utils/hugin.nsi) has the
>same functionality (Uncomment the HUGIN_ALLINONE
>definition) but if I remember correctly, the reasons
>we didn't do this by default were:
>1. Issues with licensing and patents (The SIFT
>algorithm specifically)
>2. We wanted to get permissions from all the relevant
>authors first.
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also there's no source to original ptoptimizer and ptstitcher, so those 
binaries are not allowed in sourceforge
one of them was reconstructed by panotools.sf.net team
There was a fairly extensive discussion on the issue within last 30 days 
on this list.

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>> Download from here:
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>http://users.on.net/~rwh/hugin/installer/setup-Hugin-0.5beta3.exe
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since criticism is welcome why not beta 4? sources are there already
could as well be latest cvs since developers are in bug killing only stage

>>The source file, created in InnoSetup 5.0.8 is
>>available from here:
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>>http://users.on.net/~rwh/hugin/installer/hugin.iss
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>>A zipfile of the complete tree that I used to create
>>the installer is here:
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>http://users.on.net/~rwh/hugin/installer/hugin_installer.zip
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>>InnoSetup is Free software, and is available from
>>here:
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>>http://www.jrsoftware.org/
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>The reason we choose nullsoft rather than Innosetup
>was based in part on the fact that the nullsoft
>installer was OSI certified, but mainly because we had
>experience with it on other projects.
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innosetup should also be osi certified(?).
When I posted the original installer script I based it on installer and 
fresh experience with other project, it seems to work fine and it stayed 
that way.

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Best regards,
Marek